how to lock computer in Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5.0

09-18-2008	#1 (permalink)
birsa munda Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 9	how to lock computer in Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5.0 hai everyone! Can anybody tell how to lock computer in RHEL 5.0 thx in adv. with regards birsa

09-18-2008	#2 (permalink)
cannonac Just Joined! Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 50	I'm assuming that you are not looged in as root and are logged in to the GUI? In the 'Actions' menu item (going from memory here) there is an option to lock the screen (under Gnome). Click on that and the screen will be locked. In KDE, I think there is a similar option, it may be under the logout screen. If you are running as root, you can't lock the screen. Andy

09-18-2008	#3 (permalink)
birsa munda Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 9	hi cannonac thanks for the information, but is it possible to lock computer if we are logged in as a root user. thx

12-01-2008	#4 (permalink)
geniushasan Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 39	well what you can do is create an empty file /etc/nologin it remains til the next reboot/shutdown is performed.

12-05-2008	#5 (permalink)
vinaynraj Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 2	hi hi can u give me the steps to lock the desktop...

12-05-2008

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Originally Posted by cannonac

I'm assuming that you are not looged in as root and are logged in to the GUI?

In the 'Actions' menu item (going from memory here) there is an option to lock the screen (under Gnome). Click on that and the screen will be locked.

In KDE, I think there is a similar option, it may be under the logout screen.

If you are running as root, you can't lock the screen.

Andy

can u tell me the steps to lock the desktop..

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