From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) Subject: Re: SLS Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:58:00 GMT
In article <1993Jan22.201506.19400@dgbt.doc.ca> gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.131617.5610@athena.mit.edu>, Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov> writes:
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>...
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>|> 1) Xwindows works great! (but if I xlock as anyone but root, it
>|> won't recognize my password. My only? option is to reset.)
>On this problem, it happened to me once and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE got me out of
>xlock by getting me out of Xfree completely. I am afraid that the fact that
>I could get out of xlock and X11 by doing so could lead to a security problem.
>
xlock doesn't recognize you're password because of the shadow password setup
on the sls distruibution. The only way to correct the problem with CTRL-ALT-
BACKSPACE if to turn it off (NoZap or something like that in Xconfig).
Larry