Locking your Screen as root | Fedora | Ubuntu | RHEL | Linux

Hello,

If you are root lover and you want to Protect your root screen with password So you just need to follow few steps and you are done.

Trick  to Password Protect your root screen in Linux, Fedora, RHEL and Ubuntu Distribution Follow below steps :-

For Fedora Linux & RHEL ( Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 )

1) Open Terminal. ( Application -> System Tools -> Terminal )

2) Make sure that you have installed RPMFusion repository for Fedora, and RPMForge repository for RHEL.

RPMFusion Link :- http://rpmfusion.org/
RPMForge Linl :- http://dag.wieers.com/

3) Execute Command yum -y install xlockmore

4) To lock your screen Click on Applications -> Graphics -> Xlock

5) That’s it. You are done

For Ubuntu Linux (Not sure about ubuntu to work but sure you can give it try):-

1) Open Terminal. ( Application -> Accessories -> Terminal )

2) I think this package is available in Ubuntu’s default repository.

3) Execute Command apt-get install xlockmore

4) To lock your screen Click on Applications -> Graphics -> Xlock

5) That’s it. You are done

To make this very easy you can create KeyBoard Shortcut for the same.

Enjoy root with password protected screen