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Authored by: f1rehead on Feb 06, '03 11:52:48AM
The weird thing is that this 'problem' (or 'feature') does not happen to everyone. I'm running DeskSaver right now and can mount network file servers, CD-ROMs, audio CDs, and DVDs without any problem. There is a paragraph in the DeskSaver help about this, but I guess that's not enough. I'll put the info in a more prominent place in the next version (1.1 will be out any day now). BTW, jecwobble -- Thanks for using DeskSaver! I was completely surprised to see that someone was!

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passwords?
Authored by: robg on Feb 06, '03 12:02:49PM

Do you, by chance, have a password on your screensaver or not?

-rob.



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passwords?
Authored by: tobyc on Feb 06, '03 12:58:36PM

I haven't been having this problem at all. I am using xBack for my screensaver desktop.



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passwords? YES
Authored by: jecwobble on Feb 06, '03 01:12:40PM
Now that you mention it, I do. I'll log on as my son (no password) and set up DeskSaver and give it another try. I looked at the console.log file and only found this line:
Feb  6 05:17:31 iMac /sbin/autodiskmount[198]: disk2s1s2  hfs      no
    no    TurboTax Deluxe Mac 2002 [not mounted]
I'm unfamiliar with autodiskmount (not quite a year old in UNIX terms), so I have no idea what the two "no"s are about, but I'll bet they are significant. I'll compare the log without DeskSaver running on my account, as well as with it running on my son's account.

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passwords?
Authored by: davidnorton on Feb 06, '03 09:24:14PM

I just did a highly scientific experiment:

* Eject Civilization CD-ROM
* Put mouse in corner to turn on screensaver (I have an active corner set)
* Push CD back in
* The CD spins up and all, and the computer slows for a few seconds.
* Move mouse, screensaver wakes up - iTunes has opened for the audio portion of the CD. It has obviously mounted.
* Eject CD.
* Go into System Prefs, and turn on the password protection in the Screen Effects pane.
* Put mouse in corner again.
* Stuck CD in again
* Spins up, spins down, and ejects.
* Move mouse, type in my password.

Conclusion: CD is only prevented from mounting if the password is enabled. This must, in fact, be a security feature and not a bug.



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passwords?
Authored by: keaka on Feb 13, '03 02:56:20PM

I agree, this is certainly a security feature. With a password protected screensaver you really would not want people to be able to insert and eject removable media. As somebody mentioned earlier, automounting could be used to kill the password protected screen saver. Similarly, without this feature, somebody could come up to your password protected computer, press the F12 key to eject your cd, then walk away with your precious data. This security feature isn't necessary when running a screen saver in background mode, but for now it appears that we have to choose between a password protected screen saver and pretty desktop effects.



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You're welcome.
Authored by: jecwobble on Feb 06, '03 01:16:44PM

I realize I could probably write an AppleScript to automate the CLI stuff necessary for this, but I certainly appreciate your efforts so I don't have to. I especially like the 'niceness' feature.



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