screensaver EngineDefaults.plist changes

[tbone]

Here at my Uni we enforce screensaver timeouts lock on machines and set their idle time to 10 minutes.

Before 10.4 we accomplished this by editing the EngineDefaults.plist file which would get copied to new user’s ByHost prefs. It’s no longer working. Apple has changed something as the EngineDefaults looks like ASCII plist file while the ByHost file that gets created is in some sort of binary format. Any ideas on how to manage screensaver timeouts now?

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/EngineDefaults.plist

thanks for any help.

Trent

[billydeewilliams]

Same here. Major problem as screensaver locking is required in my image.
I second the appreciation for any help…

[billydeewilliams]

Would you mind going into greater detail? I am a little green on some of this. I have been unsuccessful in getting a loginhook with Bombich’s byhosts-fixer to work.

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