[4080] in testers
Re: xss not ready for prime time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Daniel)
Fri May 21 03:43:22 1999
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 03:43:15 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199905210743.DAA07009@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
From: Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: "[4020] in testers"
>xss does not appear to actually lock the screen. it puts up the normal
>"This display is locked" message, but it accepts any non-null password
>I give it.
I managed to find this error myself and it looks like it might still
need to be fixed so here goes. When you click on "OK" in the
preferences window it dumps it's preferences to disk. In addition to
things you'd expect is the last entry "passwd:" with no argument. It
does not effect the running xss, but after you start up a new one it
gets in the state seph observed. Removing this line from the
preferences is a sufficient fix (for future xss processes), so it
seems we want to make sure it never gets written there.
I also get an unexplained 'xss: couldn't get password of "jdaniel"'
message whenever I start xss. It doesn't seem to happen with either
of the test accounts I tried but also happened to another member.
Thus my only guess is that is might have something to do with being in
the password file for the machine, which doesn't make sense because
the test accounts seem to have been added to all the normal places.
I'm a bit baffled.
Jer
