From: ftaylor@beemer.Eng.Sun.COM (Frank Taylor) Subject: Re: xlock is useless! Date: 2 Apr 1993 20:17:31 GMT
In article 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
Make sure that /etc/passwd has read permissons for group and/or others. I did a
'chmod 644 /etc/passwd' and that solve the problem for me.