[17553] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.25Tue: xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Feb 16 13:34:50 2000
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 16 Feb 2000 13:34:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:47:48 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1hitzp9et7.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Thank you for your bug report.
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> What were you trying to do?
> Screeensave with xscreensaver
> What's wrong:
> Prompted for password
> What should have happened:
> Should have saved screen with Kerberos password.
Can you verify which xscreensaver binary you were using? In Athena
8.3.25 there is an xscreensaver in the sipb locker, an xss in the
Athena release, and an xscreensaver installed on the machine. The
last of these should not have been installed and is gone away in
8.3.26.
It is also the case that the xscreensaver in the sipb locker does not
necessarily know your Kerberos password; it tries to find it in
/etc/passwd but if shadow passwords are in use (as they are in Linux)
then it might not be able to successfully find it.
> Also, the following was on the console when I logged in:
>
> 10:00 named[299]: Cleaned cache of 4 RRs
> 10:00 named[299]: USAGE 950713254 950706048 CPU=0.04u/0.02s
> CHILDCPU=0u/0s
[ ... ]
> This does not appear to be a bug per se, but I should think that
> normal non-error messages would be suppressed.
Yeah, it's a low priority issue, but we do intend to make these
potentially confusing messages go away.
Thomas
