kde3 & screensaver lock

[Christian Müller]

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Am Freitag, 12. Juli 2002 00:55 schrieb Rob Hudson:
> I compiled KDE3 from garnome.  When I tell screensaver to require a
> password, the password I type in never validates.  Do I have to set
> this somewhere or does it use /etc/passwd?  If it uses the normal
> system password, it's not working for me.  Does it require a special
> dev library?

I don't know Garnome, but here's my guess: 
The screensaver uses your regular password.  So there's no need to 
set it.
But your system is using shadow passwords for security (pretty standard) 
and the screensaver cannot read /etc/shadow where the crypted passwords 
are stored.
Did you do the KDE installation as root?

The same happens here. I had to kill the process kdesktop_lock today after I 
had accidentally enabled the screenlock.

Maybe the screensaver should check its privileges and refuse to run in forcelock mode 
if it cannot access /etc/shadow...

Cheers, 
Christian.

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