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Chapter 4-
Configuring System Settings
Figure 6: Security Panel Additional Settings
3. Place a check in the box for Require password to wake this
computer from sleep or screen saver. Note that the lock icon has
no effect on this particular option. This means that any user may
disable this capability for his own account, even if the administrator
has enabled it.
4. Unlock the window for editing if necessary.
5. Place a check in the box for Disable automatic login to ensure that
anyone using the machine must first enter a valid user ID and
password.
6. Place a check in the box for Require password to unlock each secure
system preference.
7. The Log out after x minutes of inactivity box should be unchecked
for three reasons. First, automatically logging out a user can become
extremely annoying to the user. Second, it can cause operational
difficulties if a user runs processes that may be killed by the automatic
logout process. Third, the automatic logout process can sometimes fail
to complete without intervention, leaving the user with a false sense of
security. If a program is hung or cannot quit properly, the logout
process may be blocked from completing. For example, if an unsaved
document is open in Microsoft Word, the automatic logout process will