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Re: sun4 8.1.0: xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed May 14 00:26:00 1997
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Sameer Raheja <sraheja@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 1997 20:27:45 EDT."
<199705140027.UAA07836@phantom-tollbooth.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:25:51 EDT
> Typing xscreensaver with no options launched the program
> correctly. When I clicked on the icon, I was immdiately asked for a
> password, and then asked to confirm the password. It then used that
> password to unlock the screen. It never wanted or used my Athena
> password.
xscreensaver will usually exhibit this behavior if it can't get an
encrypted passwd entry for you out of /etc/shadow. Is it possible
that you did not have na entry in /etc/shadow for some reason? Did
something in xlogin change such that it doesn't put you in /etc/shadow
in some case where it used to (like maybe if you are already in
/etc/passwd)?
Jonathon
