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Date:      Sat, 27 May 1995 14:08:50 +0100 (BST)
From:      Nik Clayton <Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk>
To:        allynh@avsi.com (Allyn Hardyck)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: xlock
Message-ID:  <862.9505271308@mishmash.brunel.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199505262155.RAA13146@jupiter.avsi.com> from "Allyn Hardyck" at May 26, 95 05:55:02 pm

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> Has there been a port made of xlock that uses the new passwd form?

Last time this came up, the solution seemed to be to ensure that xlock
is made setuid root[1]. This allows it to access the password file and get
the real information, rather than the shadow information normally
returned (try 'cat /etc/passwd' as a regular user, you'll see all the
passwords are '*'d out).

I think the latest version of xlock is "xlockmore-2.7.tar". Make sure
you've got this one or later as well.

N

[1] % chmod 4755 /path/to/xlock/xlock
=-[Opinion, n: See the above text for an example]=-=[Kibo #: e]-[RYRYRY]=-=
=-[The Silly Sod Society: To perfect and to swerve]=-[beable]-=[TP U BG]=-=



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