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Re: sun4 8.1.0: xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameer Raheja)
Thu May 15 18:11:00 1997
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 00:25:51 EDT."
<199705140425.AAA17641@deliverator.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 18:10:51 EDT
From: Sameer Raheja <sraheja@MIT.EDU>
Oops, you are right. I am already in /etc/password.
I guess I never ran xscreensaver on that machine before.
> > 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
>
