Re: xlock

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Behan Webster writes:
> I have xlockmore installed on my system here with shadow turned on.
> I know it's supposed to work (because other machines on our localnet
> are configured seemingly exactly the same and xlock works there).
> 
> griffon:~> ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /usr/bin/X11/xlock
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1220 Sep 29 09:32 /etc/passwd
> -rw-r-----   1 root     shadow        797 Oct  2 09:37 /etc/shadow
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 root     shadow     463376 May 31 21:27
> /usr/bin/X11/xlock*
> griffon:~> xlock
> xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording.
> Contact your administrator.
> griffon:~> 
> 
> What's wrong?  What am I missing?  Am I going insane?

Try a "shadowconfig off" and then "shadowconfig on" afterwards.  Maybe
the package is slightly confused?

Regards

	Joey

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