[742] in SIPB bug reports
xscreensaver password bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Nov 14 22:45:26 1989
From: cepickel@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 89 22:47:02 EST
Hi guys!
I originally sent this to olc...
I changed my password with passwd 3 or 4 days ago, and when I login it accepts
my new password now. The fun comes when I use xscreensaver.
When I type my password to xscreensaver, it does not take my new one, but the
one I had 3 or 4 days ago. I have only tried this on the same machine I
changed my password from, but I have logged out and in a number of times...
Is this clear at all? I just don't understand why xscreensaver would use my
old password. Should I be mailing to sipb bugs? Can anyone help?
Max Morris offered a thought...
--- Comment by consultant mgmorris@COPILOT.MIT.EDU
[89/11/14 11:50:55]
I'm guessing here, but could it be that the SIPB program checks the password
stored in the password file on the computer, instead of like login, which
checks the password in kerberos? If this is the case, then perhaps the
password file should be deleted so that it will be updated to the new
password. Is this a bug, or simply a representation of the functionality of
the program?
I have since rebooted the particular machine and xscreensaver now takes my
new password. If this is truly "a representation of the functionality of
the program", what is that functionality? Oh well... I had just never heard
of this happening, and if possible I would appreciate a response about what
happened.
Thanks in advance!
--Chuck Pickelhaupt
Athena Consulting
TDC Athena Geek
