[ 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
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
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
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
> 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
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
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
> -
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.
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
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/ Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/L
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