[SunHELP] Screen Saver Password Problem

[Jeff Feller]

Actually, I'm using the default stuff.  I haven't changed anything and I
would assume I'm not since when I ssh into the machine and do a "ps -ef"
to see if I can kill the process, "xlock" wasn't in there - That may not
mean xlock isn't being used, but I'm fairly sure it's not.

xlock is installed, I do see that.  What is CDE's default screen locking
thing?


Jeff Feller
Director of Network Operations
BitZ Communications
P.O. Box 157
Surrey, ND  58785

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Steffen Grunewald wrote:

> On Tue 2001-05-08 (13:31), Jeff Feller wrote:
> > Hello all,
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> > It seems like I've been asking to many questions lately - sorry!  This
> > time I am really having a weird problem.  When I log into CDE and of
> > course go to bed or something to where the screen saver password comes =
on,
> > I go to unlock the screen and my password doesn't work.  I dont have CA=
PS
> > ON, I'm typing it right.. but it NEVER works.  I then ssh into the mach=
ine
> > and can login just fine using the exact same password as I'm trying on =
the
> > screen saver.=20
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> Are you by any chance running xlock? There are some problems with special
> charcters (those which are accessed through Alt-something) - look at the =
xlock
> manual pages
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> The only chance to avoid that is to wait for a new release (it has been
> in the todo list for quite a long time) or to avoid special characters or
> to use another password for xlock (yes it's possible)
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> Steffen
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