Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:50:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> To: mikebo@tellabs.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Anyone ported xlockmore-3.7 ? Message-ID: <199609060750.JAA03610@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> In-Reply-To: Mail from 'mikebo@tellabs.com' dated: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:26:29 -0500 (CDT)
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Hi!
Have a lock in the ports collection there is xlockmore-3.9 and it
runs fine on my machine! This port includes a correct handling of the
shadow passwords on FreeBSD machines.
Lars
> I downloaded xlockmore-3.7 from MITs X11R6.1 contrib section...
> I followed the instructions and ran xmkmf, make depend and make.
> The package built with nary a warning, but once I lock the screen,
> I can't get it to take either my or root's password.
>
> I'm sure this is a simple problem to fix, and probably has something
> to do with the fact that there are no encrypted passwords in the
> /etc/passwd file. Has anyone ported this version of xlock to FreeBSD
> 2.1.5 or know an easy fix? BTW, I'm running the DES encryption package...
>
> Seems like xlockmore-2.11 is the latest one in the packages section.
> Woefully out of date...
> - Mike
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