[Thinlinc-technical] automatically unlocking screen saver on session connect?

[Tobi Oetiker]

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> On 29.11.2014, at 18:10, Carsten Rose <carsten.rose at math.uzh.ch> wrote:
> 
> Dear Torsten
> 
> According to
> 
> https://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/configuration_customizing_user_session.html
> 
> there is a /opt/thinlinc/etc/sessionreconnect.d/
> 
> We didn't step deeper into this. Our idea was:
> 
> In sessionreconnect.d (vsmserver host) tell the screenlock (vsmagent host) to unlock.
> 
> Some approaches:
> 
> Option a)
> VSM Server knows (probably) the User password (it has been cached somewhere). As the user do an ssh from vsmserver to the vsmagent host and send an shell screensaver unlock command.
> 
> Option b)
> Same a a), but send the password to the user vnc session as keystrokes (don't know if and how this might work).
> 
> Option c)
> On all vsm agent hosts, install a daemon who listen to comamands from vsm server host and unlock the corresponding screenlock.
> 
> Option d)
> Like (a) but instead of unlock, kill the user screenserver and start a new one (might be easier than doing an unlock.
> 
> HTH - and let us know about any progress ;-)
> 
> CU
> Carsten
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On our former Sun Ray installation, we used 'xscreensaver' to check if a session is in use or blocked. check
> 
> 
>> On 11/27/2014 03:16 PM, Torsten Kasch wrote:
>> Hi Carsten,
>> 
>>> On 11/24/2014 08:59 PM, Carsten Rose wrote:
>>> Dear Torsten
>>> 
>>> we would also appreciate a solution to avoid this double password input.
>> 
>> Good to hear. I already started wondering if I was really the first one to
>> notice this -- which I would have found hard to believe since experience shows
>> that (at least in the field of system administration) there always seems to be
>> someone who has come across the same issues earlier... ;-)
>> 
>>> thinlinc has some possibilities, similar to utaction - but I'm suspect it
>>> requires some work to script it.
>> 
>> Hmm, what exactly are the possibilities you were referring to? I wouldn't mind
>> having to script or tweak the system a little for a solution, but I didn't find
>> anything close to utaction(1) or similar which would allow me to hook some
>> custom routines into.
>> 
>> cheers,
>>    Torsten
>> 
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