Password sleep but not screen saver

Is there any way to make OS X ask for a password to wake up from sleep, but automatically quit a screen saver? In the security preference pane, you can either password both sleep and the screen saver, or neither.
If this is possible, I'm assuming it would be a command line hack or something of that sort.

I would like to do the same thing? Does anyone have an answer?

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