From: nshomron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Noam Shomron) Subject: Re: xlock is useless! Date: 2 Apr 1993 17:43:56 GMT
In article <C4tFGp.D28@world.std.com> acohen@world.std.com (Aaron Michael Cohen
) writes:
>bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) writes:
>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 01 Apr 1993 09:19:19 GMT, hank@Blimp (Hendrik G. Seliger) said:
>
>>hgs> Question: Does anyone know a workaround to also lock people from
>>hgs> switching to other VCs (at least the one X has been started from)??
>
>>... etc.
>
>I have a worse problem with xlock: it doesn't accept any passwords.
>I'm sure that I am typing them correctly, and I've even failed being
>able to get out of xlock when the account has a null password.
>This means that I have to reboot the machine to get out of xlock!
>
>Anyone else have similar problems? Let me know.
>acohen@world.std.com
Are you using shadow passwords? If so, make sure your xlock binary is setgid
"shadow" or somthing like that....
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