[SunHELP] Screen Saver Password?

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

I think that root can just go through the screensaver password plain and
simple.  I stumbled on to that accidently with one of my sun machines.  I
thought I was logged in as root.  I wasn't logged in it was one of my
users.  The root password seems to work for all users to get through the
screensaver anyway.


Anthony

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, David Morley wrote:

> Jeff,
>     When I had this problem it was because I had two identical user id numbers
> ie: 0 and was logged in as the second userid 0.  When I typed in the password
> for the second user nothing happened the screen saver would not go away.
> However, if I used the password of the first user id 0 (First ID 0 found
> sequentially in the /etc/passwd file) it unlocked and went away just fine.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Jeff Feller wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I think I had this problem before, but it was never solved.  Now, on my
> > Sun Ultra 1 running Solaris 8.  I use CDE as my window manager or whatever
> > and whenever the screen saver kicks in and it needs a password to resume,
> > it never seems to know my password.  I type in my password over and over
> > again so I know I'm typing the right thing.  Heck, I can ssh to the
> > machine using the same password and login just fine.  It's just that darn
> > screen saver password.
> >
> > Has anyone else ever had this problem?  If so, what did you do to fix it?
> > Thank you very much! :)
> >
> > Jeff Feller
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