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broken xlock on mef08

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Eric Logan

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May 21, 2005, 1:44:49 PM5/21/05
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Running xlock on mef08 results in it thinking my password is blank.

i.e. If my terminal is locked, and I give my password, it claims that it
is invalid. But if I jut hit 'enter', it unlocks fine.

FWIW, if I run xlock on fenchel (I did this by accident), the same thing
happens, but not on cpu22.student.cs (I did that because I was curious).

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Cody Blaine Hyndman

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May 21, 2005, 3:40:04 PM5/21/05
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Clayton Tucker [CSCF]

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May 24, 2005, 9:34:20 AM5/24/05
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What OS is mef08 these days?


Ray Butterworth

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May 24, 2005, 11:01:54 AM5/24/05
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On Tue, 24 May 2005 13:34:20 +0000 (UTC),
ctu...@general.math.uwaterloo.ca (Clayton Tucker [CSCF]) wrote:
>What OS is mef08 these days?

% rsh mef08 -n 'uname -s -r'
SunOS 5.8

Fraser Gunn

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May 24, 2005, 6:59:59 PM5/24/05
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On Sat May 21 13:44:49 EDT 2005, erl...@student.cs wrote:

> Running xlock on mef08 results in it thinking my password is blank.
>
> i.e. If my terminal is locked, and I give my password, it claims that it
> is invalid. But if I jut hit 'enter', it unlocks fine.
>
> FWIW, if I run xlock on fenchel (I did this by accident), the same thing
> happens, but not on cpu22.student.cs (I did that because I was curious).

Fixed (on many hosts). The permissions were wrong on the
x11r6-xfree-4.3_additions version of xlock.

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