RE: Unlocking xscreensaver as root

[Christopher Hahn <CHahn peregrine com>]

You could always open a virtual terminal and kill
the screen saver by hand.

Ctrl+Alt+F# should give you a console.

Good Luck,

Christopher

-----Original Message-----
From: Padraig O'Briain [mailto:Padraig.Obriain@ireland.sun.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:40 AM
To: gnome-list@gnome.org; martinez@eecs.cwru.edu
Subject: Re: Unlocking xscreensaver as root


Hi,

I have not installed xscreensaver 3.25 yet, I am using 3.24. Looking at the
code 
for xscreensaver one possibility is that xscreensaver is not setuid root.

Padraig


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> I'm using RH6.2 and the latest Helix GNOME packages available.
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