Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 02:18:10 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Tony Harverson <harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Xlock ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950602021712.2385C-100000@cancer> In-Reply-To: <199506010938.LAA04519@beastie.cs.und.ac.za>
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On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Tony Harverson wrote:
>
> I just got X running on our host here and got hold of the xlockmore1.4 that
> was available under the 2.0 distribution as a package. It installed
> without a problem, and runs nicely, but when I provide it with my password
> to unlock, I get an invalid login message. (FreeBSD 2.0R - X 3.1) Is this
> a known problem ? What is the solution ?
Probably need to set the xlockmore binary to setuid root (so it
can read the shadow password file). Xlockmore 1.4? The current
version is 2.9!!! I grabbed that about a week ago and it compiles
straight away for FreeBSD (including the setuid part).
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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