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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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