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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:52:03 -0700
From: "Mark G. M. O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU>
Organization: University of Colorado
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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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