Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:52:03 -0700 From: "Mark G. M. O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in xlockmore-2.11b.tgz Message-ID: <31320153.3F70@Colorado.EDU>
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I originally posted the following question:
> I noticed that xlock will generate a floating point exception
> error and die occasionally. I know that if you have the flame
> mode (either by -mode random, or -mode flame) up, you can just
> hit <RETURN> enough times (usually 10 or so) and it will die
> with a floating point exception error (not real good for
> security.) I think that it will do this on other modes, but
> I haven't verified it. I have only noticed it doing this when it
> generates a new pattern, not just running the old pattern
> over and over again.
>
> Is there any way to do a -mode random and add a flag to skip
> certain modes like flame? (not just for this reason)
>
> I got xlockmore-2.11b.tgz from the packages-2.1 directory.
> I am using FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE with DES/Kerberos installed.
Here is the response I received (not posted to questions):
Note: He also informed me (a few minutes ago) that 3.7 was now
the current version.
David Bagley x21081 wrote:
>
> Hi
> I am the maintainer of xlockmore. Bill Pechter forwarded your message to me.
>
> > > Is there any way to do a -mode random and add a flag to skip
> > > certain modes like flame? (not just for this reason)
> > >
> > > I got xlockmore-2.11b.tgz from the packages-2.1 directory.
> This version is very old and buggy. Please try the new version 3.6 at
> ftp.x.org//contrib/applications .
>
> > I am using FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE with DES/Kerberos installed.
> Oh, I just got a patch for Kerberos ... so you may want to use it,
> though I do not have DES/Kerberos myself. So far, its the only bug fix
> to 3.6 .
>
> *** passwd.c.orig Tue Jan 16 12:50:17 1996
> --- passwd.c Tue Jan 16 12:51:18 1996
> ***************
> *** 817,822 ****
> --- 817,825 ----
> /* Construct a ticket file */
> (void) sprintf(tkfile, "/tmp/xlock_tkt_%d", getpid());
>
> + /* Now, let's make the ticket file named above the _active_ tkt file */
> + krb_set_tkt_string(tkfile);
> +
> /* ask the kerberos server for a ticket! */
> if (krb_get_pw_in_tkt(pwd->pw_name, "", realm,
> "krbtgt", realm,
>
> --CUT HERE--
>
> Cheers,
> David Bagley
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