On 9/25/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:15:13 +1000 Chuckles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > Hi all, > > > > Whats the current level of functionality of the screen lock? All it does > > on my system is bring up the screen saver, I can no longer set a > > password (or should i say i don't know how to set the password....). Is > > this where things are on the cvs right now or am i missing something? > > you need pam support built (e has to detect libpam) to use your system (users) > password. some os's don't like this unless e runs as root - so it won't work > (bsd). linux is happy and can authenticate (well most linux distribution users > seem happy) (i consider this more of a bsd problem in and of itself as this > basically means only root can authenticate your own password, and i'd have to > add an unnecessary suid root backdoor to e to do this). i disabled the > personal > password stuff because its a security problem (that password is held in e's > config files - no safety or encryption).
That's not only for *BSD, some Linux distro like Slackware doesn't use PAM. Is there any workaround (or a small patch to get back the personal password)? -- Jerome Pinot http://ngc891.blogdns.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
