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Re: xlock
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Thu Oct 24 18:05:24 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Jon Mitchell wrote:
> Hi.. newly installed 4.0 system. No shadowed passwords or anything.
> xlock doesn't take my password. Tried several user accounts and they all
> say login incorrect when I try to turn off xlock. Any ideas? There are
> no PAM messages in the syslog but then again, xlock probably isn't
> compiled to use PAM. I would think it would be able to read the world
> readable password file though. Anyone else having trouble with this?
xlock does indeed use PAM. Check your /etc/pam.conf and make sure there
are reasonable entries for xlock in it...?
Hope this helps,
-- Elliot
A: "Talk about stupidity!"
B: "Who, you?"
A: "No, me!"
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