[THIN] Re: Dumb Question: Password Protecting Screen Savers

  • From: "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:35:27 -0600

I set a blank screen with a password on the servers and a graphical
screensaver with no password on the client side. The combination looks like
a pretty password protected screensaver.

On Jan 3, 2008 10:38 AM, Jon Luchette <jon.e.luchette@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I have always been under the impression that setting screen savers for
> Citrix users was a bad idea, because of the unnecessary # of CPU cycles that
> will be eaten up when a screen saver is running 20 or 30 times on a box.
> But if a company wants the security of being able to set password protection
> if a user is idle for 20 or 30 minutes in a citrix desktop, do you have to
> enable screen savers?  The only option being to set up idle session
> disconnects and have the users be forced to reconnect to their published
> desktop from scratch?
>
>
>

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