On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:56:27 -0500 JtWdyP <[email protected]> said:

> 
> I had a shortcut set to the "lock" function in the keyboard shortcut 
> settings with my desktop's opensuse, where E17 is provided by the factory 
> repo that is supposed to use stable releases of E17...
> 
> I locked the screen with the shortcut and it seemed to be working 
> correctly. The little input box in the middle of the screen registered 
> each keystroke of my user password with a bullet symbol. But when I hit
> enter it insisted that my password was invalid. I used <ctrl>+<alt>+<F3> to
> try the same passwd at tty3's passwd prompt. It worked there, proving it
> wasn't a keyboard issue {or a case of brain flatulence for that matter}
> I wound up having to crash out of X... Which bothers me mostly because
> recovering the half dozen files I was editing in various xterms with vim
> was aggravating...
> 
> I don't know why this happened but my solution was to install xlockmore and
> then use the settings>screen>screen lock setting to use xlock, which has no
> problem recognizing my passwd...
> 
> Any idea why E's own screenlock function didn't recognize it???

suse's pam setup doesn't allow non-root processes to authenticate passwords?
maybe?

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