Cant Authenticate to Escape Screen Saver?
Cant Authenticate to Escape Screen Saver?
I admin 200 Macs. I have set all Macs to activate their screen saver after 30 min of inactivity. I have the Macs set to go to sleep after 1 hour. Its a security protocol my VPs have mandated.
Some Macs (G4s and G5s) will activate their screen saver after 30 minutes as expected, but when the user tries to authenticate to get back to work (and kill the screen saver), the Mac wont accept their password. They are forces to reboot their Mac (with open important files in the background!)
Any ideas?
More info:
All Macs run Panther 10.3.4
All Macs use Apple's Flurry screen saver
All Macs are bound to Active Directory 2003 (not sure if screeen saver uses AD to authenticate the screen saver or uses a local cache)
I admin 200 Macs. I have set all Macs to activate their screen saver after 30 min of inactivity. I have the Macs set to go to sleep after 1 hour. Its a security protocol my VPs have mandated.
Some Macs (G4s and G5s) will activate their screen saver after 30 minutes as expected, but when the user tries to authenticate to get back to work (and kill the screen saver), the Mac wont accept their password. They are forces to reboot their Mac (with open important files in the background!)
Any ideas?
More info:
All Macs run Panther 10.3.4
All Macs use Apple's Flurry screen saver
All Macs are bound to Active Directory 2003 (not sure if screeen saver uses AD to authenticate the screen saver or uses a local cache)
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Originally posted by dstranathan
Cant Authenticate to Escape Screen Saver?
I admin 200 Macs. I have set all Macs to activate their screen saver after 30 min of inactivity. I have the Macs set to go to sleep after 1 hour. Its a security protocol my VPs have mandated.
Some Macs (G4s and G5s) will activate their screen saver after 30 minutes as expected, but when the user tries to authenticate to get back to work (and kill the screen saver), the Mac wont accept their password. They are forces to reboot their Mac (with open important files in the background!)
Any ideas?
More info:
All Macs run Panther 10.3.4
All Macs use Apple's Flurry screen saver
All Macs are bound to Active Directory 2003 (not sure if screeen saver uses AD to authenticate the screen saver or uses a local cache)
I think that BuonRotto hit upon the $64 thousand question: Which user owns the screensaver? If the feature was implementd as an administrative process, then only the administrator's password will stop it. The screensaver will have to be reinstalled as a user processor.
Originally posted by bunge
Sorry I can't help but, how do I get the computer to force requiring a password when coming back from a screen saver?
It's a checkbox in the Security pane of the System Preferences:
"Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver"
Originally posted by dstranathan
All Macs are bound to Active Directory 2003 (not sure if screeen saver uses AD to authenticate the screen saver or uses a local cache)
The screensaver does use the AD password.
Can you authenticate with a local Mac admin account to turn off the screen saver?
Originally posted by BuonRotto
It's a checkbox in the Security pane of the System Preferences:
"Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver"
Duh. I was looking under Screen Savers.
Thanks.