SUMMARY: accounts for multiuser systems

From: Harold White <Harold.White_at_metera.com>
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 16:00:24 EDT
Only received 3 responses ... thanks to your responses.

1. Do not create a nightmare with group accounts. (I agree)
2. Disable lock screen (in CDE I still do not know how).
3. Use "xlockmore".  It has an option where the user can be logged out
after a
   configurable timeout by a button on the screen (sounds promising!)

I beleive that this could work ... if I can only figure out
#2 ... how to disable CDE-lock on a workstation.

Thanks again,
Harold

Harold White wrote:
> 
> Anyone know a good way (ie. maybe leave an audit trail
> of who the person was for accountability purposes) to
> setup an account that is to be used, in our case, a
> lab environment by multiple users.
> 
> Maybe this (above) is not the best solution so here
> is the problem.
> 
> Lab systems (Sun Solaris 7 & 8 CDE systems) are used
> for testing and integration.  Users log in (with their
> default user account) and leave and/or lock the
> screen (CDE lock).  At this point, either an admin has to
> go enter the root password on that system, ie. can't kill
> CDE lock remotely, or the user has to give out their password
> to others (when they not there).  Neither is a good solution.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Harold White
> 
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> Harold White                    mailto:Harold.White@metera.com
> Metera Networks, Inc            Ph:  469 330-1716
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Harold White                    mailto:Harold.White@metera.com
Metera Networks, Inc            Ph:  469 330-1716
1202 Richardson Dr, Suite 100   Fax: 469 330-1762
Received on Thu Aug 9 21:00:24 2001

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