is it possible to put a "logout" button on the wake-from-screensaver dialog

Does anyone know if there's a setting or hack to put a "logout" option on the password dialogue you get when the machine wakes from sleep or screensaver (with secure option set).

Example: When our family laptop goes to sleep or screensaver after it was open in my account, it will wake up only with my password unless I make my wife's account administrator. If I do so, she can wake the computer without repowering it, but it wakes in MY account even though she's used HER username/password. That's not what we want. We want a logout button that will take her back to the multi-account login screen without rebooting.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks!

Macbook intel 2GHz Core 2 Duo 1GB, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 28, 2009 5:28 AM

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Dec 28, 2009 10:21 AM in response to hochmand

hochmand wrote:
Does anyone know if there's a setting or hack to put a "logout" option on the password dialogue you get when the machine wakes from sleep or screensaver (with secure option set).

Example: When our family laptop goes to sleep or screensaver after it was open in my account, it will wake up only with my password unless I make my wife's account administrator. If I do so, she can wake the computer without repowering it, but it wakes in MY account even though she's used HER username/password. That's not what we want. We want a logout button that will take her back to the multi-account login screen without rebooting.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

it's not possible to add a logout button but there is no need. just go to system preferences->accounts->login options and enable fast user switching. then the wake from sleep dialog will have a 'switch users" button which will take you to the login window without logging out the current user. you can log into any user from the login window.
Thanks!

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