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- From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
- Subject: Re: SLS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.225800.5820@cs.tulane.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
- References: <1993Jan22.131617.5610@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan22.201506.19400@dgbt.doc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:58:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.201506.19400@dgbt.doc.ca> gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.131617.5610@athena.mit.edu>, Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov> writes:
- >|>
- >...
- >|>
- >|> 1) Xwindows works great! (but if I xlock as anyone but root, it
- >|> won't recognize my password. My only? option is to reset.)
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- >On this problem, it happened to me once and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE got me out of
- >xlock by getting me out of Xfree completely. I am afraid that the fact that
- >I could get out of xlock and X11 by doing so could lead to a security problem.
- >
- xlock doesn't recognize you're password because of the shadow password setup
- on the sls distruibution. The only way to correct the problem with CTRL-ALT-
- BACKSPACE if to turn it off (NoZap or something like that in Xconfig).
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- Larry
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