Screen Saver Policy

[Celiker]

Hi,
i am new on the JSS. Someone could help to me about how to create a screen saver policy with password ?

thank you very much.

[dpratl]

Hi @Celiker,

You can set the Lockscreen with password with a Configuration Profile: (Require Password "immediatly" after sleep or screen saver begins)

We are handling the delay for the screensaver with a little script:

#!/bin/bash
#Setting Screensaver delay in seconds
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set delay interval of screen saver preferences to 900'

BR
Daniel

[Celiker]

Hi dprati,
thank you very much for help. But i dont know, where is the script write area here ?

[dpratl]

Hi @Celiker ,

I'm sorry, I forgot that ;)

You have to create the script in the Management Settings -> Computer Management -> Scripts.
And after that create a policy which contains just this script.

BR
Daniel

[Celiker]

Hi Daniel,
Thank you for quick response to me..
- Password policy is working.. very good.
- But screen saver time out policy did not work.. What is the wrong with policy. ( added picture.) Everyone can still change screen saver time on their computer.
I need your advices.

Thank you very much.

[dpratl · Accepted solution]

Hi @Celiker,

I'm sorry I didn't get the point that you want to prevent users changing this period.
You also have to set this in a (or the existing) Configuration profile:

As you can see in the image above it would be also possible to set a time and screensaver type, but only in steps Apple is providing(..., 10, 20, ...), whatever you are typing into that field. To set the screen saver is not working for us, I don't know why but I also don't care ;)

If you block the access you don't have to run the policy ongoing (is not a good idea at all because you will lose the overview when you have to check If a policy failed on a computer)

BR
Daniel

[Celiker]

Hi @Daniel,
Your advice worked for me. Screen saver will be activate 20min if the user be inactive. Also i changed "ongoing" to "per user".

Thank you for help. :)
Case closed :)

[mjohnston]

Hi All. Trying to make sense of all this.

I want the screen saver to kick in after 15 minutes.
All out Macs already have "login after sleep or screensaver" enabled.

I've set the Login Window payload to enable screensaver after 15 mins but in testing it set our Macs to 1 minute which is going to upset many folks.
Whats the deal?

Thanks,
Matt