meburke
August 13th, 2008, 03:45 PM
I have enabled root login on my private workstation (administrative needs). However, the screen saver does not lock the session, so I did a "switch user". When I switch from the root desktop to the other user, I get a message telling me that I have a session running and asking me if I want to resume it. However, when I switch user and log in as root, it spawns another session on a different tty port.
(For those of you who want to reproduce the problem: Pressing CTL-ALT F6, F5, F4, F3, F2 or F1 from the Window manager opens a shell login on another terminal port. From any of those shells, logging in is not necessary, ALT-F7 will take you back to the Gnome desktop. Apparently, the other user is spawned on the F9 port. F8 takes me to a port that seems to be stuck spawning something, and F10 had the second root desktop, but when I closed it it hung.)
This seems different from my previous experience with UNIX. If I wanted to use the alternate terminals, I would have logged in on them instead of switching users. What I really want, if anyone knows how, is to configure my system so that the screen saver locks the root session.
Thank you,
Mike
(For those of you who want to reproduce the problem: Pressing CTL-ALT F6, F5, F4, F3, F2 or F1 from the Window manager opens a shell login on another terminal port. From any of those shells, logging in is not necessary, ALT-F7 will take you back to the Gnome desktop. Apparently, the other user is spawned on the F9 port. F8 takes me to a port that seems to be stuck spawning something, and F10 had the second root desktop, but when I closed it it hung.)
This seems different from my previous experience with UNIX. If I wanted to use the alternate terminals, I would have logged in on them instead of switching users. What I really want, if anyone knows how, is to configure my system so that the screen saver locks the root session.
Thank you,
Mike