On Wednesday 30 Jan 2013 00:14:03 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> 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?
Or have you set (by mistake) a different language/keyboard for screenlock,
than your desktop and console?
--
Regards,
Mick
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