[4085] in testers
Re: xss not ready for prime time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Fri May 21 13:00:11 1999
Message-Id: <199905211700.RAA925602@antharia.mit.edu>
To: Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 1999 03:43:15 EDT."
<199905210743.DAA07009@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:00:00 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
Ah, thanks. I've submitted a patch to fix this.
> I also get an unexplained 'xss: couldn't get password of "jdaniel"'
> message whenever I start xss.
That means you're in the shadow file with no password. This will only
happen on private workstations that have nocrack set, or where you are
in the shadow file from when they were running Irix 6.2 or 6.3.
-- Dan
