With 20'000 students including 9000 graduates and about 50 research laboratories, each year, believe me that you will not get any support for anything from the admin of the machines. I already asked or tried, and to get any support for similar things, such as installation of a software on a specific machine. You get your Linux box, and if you wanna use a specific program you always can compile to your local. Permission fix for it is likely not "possible / thinkable". Although on most machines, there is xscreensaver, but why not using slock? The slock app is though not installed.
2013/11/14 Carlos Torres <vlaadbr...@gmail.com>: > Hi Patrick, > > On 11/14/13, patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Ok, look my example, think about a student behind the rules of the admin. > > Then you must appeal to the administrator(s) and provide the source so that > they may review it and install it. just the same way they've installed other > X11 screen locking apps that also have suid/guid set. > > --Carlos >
