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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Good morning all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Yesterday I posted
this same question, but I have taken the research further than before.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-vertical-align-alt:auto'><span
class=EmailStyle17><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We have just installed Sun Solaris 9 803 along with
KDE 3.1 from the Sun’s Companion CD.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When we login to
the KDE desktop and lock the screen, we cannot unlock the screen.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The only way we can
unlock the screen is to go to another system and secure shell to the<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Locked system, ps –ef
| grep lock, and kill the lock process.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Further testing has
shown that the unlock function is performing as advertised. We added<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>a test userid to
the /etc/passwd/shadow files and the screen unlocks normally using that userid.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Our problem points to
the fact that we run with a split password file at this site. This is required <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>because we are
NISing to multiple vendors (Sun, DEC, Linux, and SGI) from the same master
host.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>These vendors have
different system userids below 100. Therefore, we only NIS actual “user” userids
<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>from /var/yp/passwd/shadow.
A minor mod to the Makefile in /var/yp allows us to do this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hopefully, we are
not the only site in the world running with split password files <span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Has anyone come up
with a patch that will allow us to continue with the split password files?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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