On Jun 13, Hanno Wagner wrote > Hi, > I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It > works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me > following: > > -------- > [wagner@bidnix ~]$ xlock > xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording. > Contact your administrator. > -------- > > Well... I asked the package maintainer (it is the last > version of xlockmore I am using Version 4.02-1). And I > verified the group and s+bit of xlock: > > -------- > [wagner@bidnix ~]$ ls -l `which xlock` > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root shadow 462824 Apr 25 01:53 /usr/bin/X11/xlock > -------- Hmm. That's kinda odd. Maybe check the permissions on your /etc/shadow file. It should be: -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 897 Apr 6 03:40 /etc/shadow Christian
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