Re: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-03-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
[ Interesting, I thought I already replied to this, maybe someone else with the same problem. ] On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, Brandon! > > I rebooted the computer hoping that it'll cure the problem, but it did not. > But when I ran xlock from the terminal, that's what

Re: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-03-02 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Brandon! I rebooted the computer hoping that it'll cure the problem, but it did not. But when I ran xlock from the terminal, that's what I get: $ xlock & [1] 766 $ X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap) Se

Re: Xlock questions

1997-11-30 Thread Bob Clark
David S. Zelinsky wrote: > > I have some questions related to xlock: > [ snipped questions 1-3 ]--- > > 4. Is there a way to get xlock to activate itself automatically, after a > specified amount of idle time? If not, is there some other screen saver that > will do this? Or

Re: xlock

1997-10-15 Thread Behan Webster
Paul Serice wrote: > > There is another solution, I think. I recently recompiled xlockmore > from the Debian sources to enable "bomb" mode and the "xmlock" > program (which is working well enough with lesstif). When I was > reading the options, I ran across an option which lets their be an > enc

Re: xlock

1997-10-15 Thread Paul Serice
> No, shadow was definitely on and functioning fine. It is xlock > itself who can't read the password despite being setgid shadow. > > The problem (which I finally figured out) is that the passwords are > being served by nis. I have nis setup to mangle passwords for non > root users, and since x

Re: xlock

1997-10-13 Thread Behan Webster
Martin Schulze wrote: > > Behan Webster writes: > > I have xlockmore installed on my system here with shadow turned on. > > I know it's supposed to work (because other machines on our localnet > > are configured seemingly exactly the same and xlock works there). > > > > griffon:~> ls -l /etc/passw

Re: xlock

1997-10-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Behan Webster writes: > I have xlockmore installed on my system here with shadow turned on. > I know it's supposed to work (because other machines on our localnet > are configured seemingly exactly the same and xlock works there). > > griffon:~> ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /usr/bin/X11/xlock > -

Re: xlock and shadow passwords

1997-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 17, Martin Schulze wrote > > Is there a version of xlock with shadow passwords? > > Use xlockmore instead. It comes with a newmail binary ^^^ Errr... I meant an xlock binary. Sorry, should go to bed... > which is aware of shadow passwords.

Re: xlock and shadow passwords

1997-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 16, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote > Is there a version of xlock with shadow passwords? Use xlockmore instead. It comes with a newmail binary which is aware of shadow passwords. It's quite nicer than the original xlock, too. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/L