[778] in SIPB bug reports
Suggested fix to xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 5 19:10:43 1989
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 89 19:12:07 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
A bunch of people have been coming into the SIPB office complaining that
their xscreensavers won't unlock --- including some people who swore
they were using uwm. Unfortunately, these bugs seem impossible to
reproduce --- so how about the following suggestion:
When locked, xscreensaver listens on a particular port for connections.
If someone connects, it prints a password prompt and if the correct
user's password is entered, it unlocks. That way, we can help save
people who've been locked out by telnet'ing to the magic port and asking
the user to type their password.
What do people think?
- Ted
