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Capture screenshots of the login screen
Well, I am an author and I do find this very useful. In the past I've been stumped at this trick, which I thought was done photographically. This was one of a very, very few items that escaped me in my mastery of OS X. The silly part of it is that it's so simple to understand why. Thanks for the hint.
Capture screenshots of the login screen
I spent a couple of hours researching this, checking on lots of web sites, and it was finally a colleague developer who suggested the hint. (I'm the one who posted this to the X-unix list.) Needing this for a book I'm writing, I couldn't understand how other authors had managed to get shots of this.
Root needed?
Think security.
Root needed?
Why?
Root needed?
The reason why is that this trick doesn't only work for the login screen; you can capture the screen at any point this way. If you didn't need root access, then you could, in theory, capture screenshots of what someone else was doing from another room. Particularly a problem on shared computers. |
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