Screen Savers!!

bentoms
Release Candidate Programs Tester

I know this is pretty much admin 101... but we're having some issues managing screen savers via OD/mcx for 10.4, 10.5 & 10.6 clients (our OD servers are10.5 only atm).... & I'm having a mental blank..

Basically, some clients are getting the correct lock downs.. others are not.. & I'm wondering if Casper could offer us a better alternative.. one that will work across platforms..

I'm also thinking that this could be a self-healing package, or an offline script...

Can anyone help point me in the right direction..

Like I said, it works for some accounts.. weirdly these accounts seem to have been moved from 10.4 > 10.5 > 10.6 macs.. so they're having the 'old' 10.4/10.5 settings working on a 10.6 machine.. but when you log them in as a new account these settings do not enforce the screen saver... weird..

Ben Toms
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bentoms
Release Candidate Programs Tester

Yep.. looks like there is two..

One for askforpassword (sits in users library)..

One byhost for idletime (sits in byhosts folder in users lib, the byhost is based on the machines UUID..)..

So quite a change..

Ben Toms
IT Support Analyst GREY Group
The Johnson Building, 77 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8JS
T: +44 (0) 20-3037-3819 |
Main: +44 (0) 20 3037 3000 | IT Helpdesk: +44 (0) 20 3037 3883

jarednichols
Honored Contributor

We've been using the built-in MCX template for screen saver locking and it seems to stick just fine. Not sure if MCX over-rides any sort of byhost prefs though…

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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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