[16952] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.10: xss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed Jul 7 17:47:45 1999
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:47:37 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199907072147.RAA106593@antharia.mit.edu>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199907071918.PAA26180@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
> consistently. on sweet-transvestite, the following is
> printed to the console:
>
> 08:58 xss: couldn't get password of "cfox"
This is an error message. It prints on st because either you aren't
in /etc/shadow or you are in /etc/shadow but have no password there.
It doesn't print on other machines because you are properly
shadow-passworded there.
> Also note that on O2's, there's an interaction between xss and
> the monitor power saving. The monitor will (most of the time)
> switch off after 10 minutes of inactivity - I've reported this,
> but I don't know why it happens.
I've never seen this on antharia in the several months I've been using
xss. Although I have a Sun monitor attached to it.
-- Dan
