[5173] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Feb 19 01:21:51 1995
To: marthag@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Feb 1995 00:50:39 EST."
<9502190550.AA10317@portnoy.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 01:21:32 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I locked my screen using xscreensaver on granola, and it would not
> unlock.
> I'm not in the passwd file, and I have xscreensaver*encryptedKey set
> in my .Xresources.
This seems to be an incompatibility with crypt() between {Linux,
NetBSD} and {x|x is any other Athena platform}. It only seems to
affect encrypted passwords whose salts are non-alphabetical. If you
re-encrypt your xscreensaver password until you get one with an
alphabetical salt, it should work.
I'm not sure whether or not we can do anything about this. We could
link xscreensaver against an implementation of crypt() which is
compatible with the other Athena platforms, but then people who
encrypt their passwords using something like perl on a NetBSD machine
will still have the same problem as before.
