Bug 51686

Summary:	default for xscreensaver app-defaults should be lock
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Component:	xscreensaver	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	roswell	CC:	jwz, rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Seth Vidal 2001-08-13 20:58:03 UTC

Description of Problem:

This is silly but it would be nice if the default for xscreensaver would be
to lock.

You can easily do this by editing the XScreenSaver file in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

if you change:
*lock: False 
to
*lock: True

then it should lock by default.

yes. I know I can do this in the post installs of my systems but I think
its 1. an easy change and 2. a good security feature for it to be on by
default.

Comment 1 Jamie Zawinski 2002-07-27 06:43:27 UTC

It would be crazy to turn on locking by default.

Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2002-07-27 11:58:09 UTC

Why would it be crazy?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-13 01:29:45 UTC

This is not something where I'd think we'd deviate from a) upstream b)
established behavior.

Comment 4 Seth Vidal 2002-08-13 01:36:13 UTC

established behavior is ipchains/iptables are not enabled - y'all have them
enabled in the installer by default, why do you do this? b/c it makes the system
more secure - the same is true for locking on the screensaver.