[SunHELP] Screen Saver Password?

[Jeff Feller]

I've tried everyone's advice and nothing has worked :(   This machine has
three user names... All have different UID's.. I tried that mouse pointer
thing... and, since this is my personal file server and it has no connection
to the net, my root password and my user password are the same soo..
realistically I'm trying both passwords :)  I even typed the other two users
passwords and nothing.  It's definately a weird problem.  Am I the only one
who's experienced this?  hehehe.. Any other advice will be greatly
appreciated.  Because at this point if I happen to stay logged in and the
screen saver password kicks in, I just have to ssh from another machine on
my home network and kill the process :(

Thanks guys,

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <agabriel at home.tzo.org>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Screen Saver Password?


> 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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