From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 11:47:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FFC15B82 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:47:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06648; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:47:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:47:13 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: Matthew Hunt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xlockmore buffering considered silly In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:33:33AM +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > > > I use xlockmore on 3.3 fbsd.Trying to unlock from keyboard for first > > > time lead to invalid login.Trying to unlock with mouse klick works fine. > > > Trying to unlock from keyboard after Ctrl-U works fine.Subsequent login > > > tries from keyboard work fine.I guess xlockmore buufer the first sign from > > > the keyboard and uses it in in password.It will surely not work cause it > > > is not neccessary that it will coencede with the first sign of my > > > password.I suggest to move this buffering away. > > > > I suggest you read the manual, especially the bit about "-usefirst". > > > Surely.I have already done it.Thank you for your suggestion. > The default is NOT to use usefirst.So I should not add > -usefirst.But the problem is with app-defaults/Xlock. > Usefirst was set to ON per default.I have corrected it now. > Workaround: hit Alt or some other key which will wake it up without being regarded as input, even with -usefirst. Xlock will give you a clean passwd prompt. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message