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From: Ryan Tandy <tarpman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:46:01
Message-Id: 44B0312B.7010206@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop by Grant
1 Grant wrote:
2 > My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to
3 > compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router.
4 > This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new
5 > wireless card or sharing my laptop. She has a user account on my
6 > laptop and I use gdm so it's easy for her to log in, but is there
7 > anything that can be done about the situation where I'm logged in and
8 > away, xscreensaver has locked the screen, and she wants to log into
9 > her account and use the system?
10 >
11 > - Grant
12
13 tarpman@epsilon ~ $ equery u xscreensaver
14 [ Searching for packages matching xscreensaver... ]
15 [ Colour Code : set unset ]
16 [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ]
17 [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
18 [ Found these USE variables for x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.00 ]
19 U I
20 <snip>
21 - - new-login : Enables users to create new logins even if the X
22 screen is locked by someone else
23 <snip>
24
25 :)
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