Could anyone test this to see if it's a reproducible bug in 10.4.2?
Just open
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.XXXXXXXX.plist
and change askForPassword and see what happens to your Security
preference pane.
On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Ed Pastore wrote:
At least in 10.4.2, if I go to:
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.XXXXXXXX.plist
and manually edit the askForPassword field, I do not get the
expected result.
I can change it to 0 or 1 and it has no effect on either the
Security preference pane or the actual screensaver/password
behavior. However, if I check or uncheck the box in the Security
preference Pane, this field in this file changes between 0 and 1.
It used to be the case that editing this file affected the password
preference, but now it doesn't (not entirely sure which machines it
doesn't work on, but this is the case with 10.4.2 clients with 007
update). Worse, even editing this field to a 1 (when it already had
a 1 in it) seems to turn off the password protection!
I used ARD to send this command to a group of Macs, some of which
were secure and some which were not... and now they are all insecure.
How do I change the preference other than by the GUI?
I have end-users locked out of this preference pane, so need to be
able to write it from a CLI .
