Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 08:51:31 -0600 From: "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU> To: mikebo@tellabs.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Borowiec <mikebo@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone ported xlockmore-3.7 ? Message-ID: <32303A73.5644@Colorado.EDU> References: <199609060126.UAA01324@sunc210.tellabs.com>
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mikebo@tellabs.com wrote: > > I downloaded xlockmore-3.7 from MITs X11R6.1 contrib section... > I followed the instructions and ran xmkmf, make depend and make. > The package built with nary a warning, but once I lock the screen, > I can't get it to take either my or root's password. > > I'm sure this is a simple problem to fix, and probably has something > to do with the fact that there are no encrypted passwords in the > /etc/passwd file. Has anyone ported this version of xlock to FreeBSD > 2.1.5 or know an easy fix? BTW, I'm running the DES encryption package... Yep, you're right, it cannot read the passwords from the shadow password database. Make sure it's setuid root, then it should work for you (it worked fine for me once I did that). > > Seems like xlockmore-2.11 is the latest one in the packages section. > Woefully out of date... Not only is it "woefully out of date", but it has some bugs that cause it to core dump, leaving you with no lock (the flame module does this quite regularly). I posted this warning a while back, but I guess the keeper of the package didn't get around to changing it yet. 8( > - Mike > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Borowiec - mikebo@tellabs.com - Tellabs Operations, Inc. > Senior Member of Technical Staff 4951 Indiana Avenue, MS 63 > 630-512-8211 FAX: 630-512-7099 Lisle, IL 60532 USA > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \
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