[16953] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.10: xss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 7 17:49:22 1999
Message-Id: <199907072149.RAA20385@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:47:37 EDT."
<199907072147.RAA106593@antharia.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:49:14 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
The point, I think, is that xss shouldn't complain about this if you
specify an encrypted password in .xscreensaver.
