If you remove those lines, the default will come from the /etc/dt/config/C/sys.resources file. This is where the users screensaver choice and lockout time is. We don't want that either, so I came up with sort of a work around.įirst, you can edit the $HOME/.dt/sessions/home/dt.resources file. With that, obviously any user can just change the screensaver/lock function and save thier home session. It will not stay unless you save that home session. When you click on a setting in the Screen Saver window, it is temporarily saved to the "current" home session in your $HOME/.dt/sessions directory. The reason you didn't get the settings you set in the Style Manager was because you must save your home session before you log out. A user's settings will override the /etc/dt/* config files. However the answer to your last question is yes. I haven't had any luck finding a file that will set defaults. Our team has been trying to do this for the last two days on Solaris 8. What does the '*' before 'timeout' mean? Looking at the other text in the file, it seems '!' is used for comments but I'm not sure what the '*' is for. xscreensaver file in my home directory.Īlso, the timeout variable in XScreenSaver is defined as follows: I logged out and back in but my timeout value was still set to 20 minutes. I changed my timeout value on my screensaver (by going to the Style Manager in the GUI) from 15 to 20 minutes. xscreensaver in their home directory, then the default values from XScreenSaver would be used.Ĭurrently, the 'timeout' variable in the XScreenSaver file is set to 15. I did a quick search on this and found a few sites that said there was an XScreenSaver file that would contain default values for the time. I need to find a way to ensure that the screensaver comes on after a certain amount of time. However, enabling the user configuration screen locking group policy prevents users from changing their screen locking parameters.First off, I'm a complete novice with using Solaris/CDE so bear with me - View image here:. To enforce this policy for individual users, you should enable the screen locking policy as a user configuration policy.
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If you select Enabled for this group policy as a computer configuration policy, you can make the policy the default screen locking behavior for all users of the computer and set the default number of minutes to wait before locking the screen, but users are free to override the default. xscreensaver directory with a umask of 0700 in the user home directory on the NFS server to prevent the user from changing. As a workaround, the user may manually create the. Note: If the user home directory is NFS-mounted, with the root-squash option set, this policy will not work as intended because the group policy (running as root) cannot create the un-deletable $HOME/.xscreensaver directory. When the xscreensaver program tests to see if there is a regular file in the user’s home directory and does not find it, it uses the system configuration file. To enforce a centralized screen locking policy, this group policy creates a directory in the user’s home directory that is owned by root and places a file that is also owned by root in this directory, so that the file cannot be removed by the user. xscreensaver file in their home directory. Although the xscreensaver program has a default configuration file, this centralized configuration file is automatically overridden if users have a local. The most common way to handle screen locking on Linux computers is through the xscreensaver program.
The mechanism used to control screen locking is specific to Linux-based computers, however, so the policies are listed under the Linux Settings category.
Select the User Configuration > Centrify Settings > Linux Settings > Enforce screen locking group policy to configure user-based screen locking.īoth Enforce screen locking group policies are defined in the centrify_unix_settings.xml administrative template. Select the Computer Configuration > Centrify Settings > Linux Settings > Enforce screen locking group policy to configure computer-based screen locking. Use the Enforce screen locking group policy to control the screen lock enforcement and the timee out value for all users logging on to a computer or for individual users.
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