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RS/6000 xscreensaver

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sat Jun 13 12:12:29 1992

To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 12:12:08 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>


On porter, an RS/6000 running 7.4, I got this message starting xscreensaver:

~ > nice xscreensaver -l -B -v 0
xscreensaver: Velocity must be greater than 0.
~ > opening hft: Permission denied
xscreensaver: error disabling HFT hot key.
xscreensaver: Giving up on screen locking.
xscreensaver: To force screen locking, run xscreensaver again
xscreensaver: with the "-requireHotkey" option.

~ > fs getcell $s
Cell sipb.mit.edu status: setuid allowed
~ > ls -l /mit/sipb/rsaixbin/xscreensaver
-rwsr-sr-x  1 root       500153 Jun 10 16:43 /mit/sipb/rsaixbin/xscreensaver

It asked me for my password.


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