From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 10:51:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B2014D0C for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA81711; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:51:53 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xlockmore buffering considered silly Message-ID: <20000128105152.B81381@wopr.caltech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:33:33AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:33:33AM +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > I use xlockmore on 3.3 fbsd.Trying to unlock from keyboard for first > time lead to invalid login.Trying to unlock with mouse klick works fine. > Trying to unlock from keyboard after Ctrl-U works fine.Subsequent login > tries from keyboard work fine.I guess xlockmore buufer the first sign from > the keyboard and uses it in in password.It will surely not work cause it > is not neccessary that it will coencede with the first sign of my > password.I suggest to move this buffering away. I suggest you read the manual, especially the bit about "-usefirst". -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message