[SunHELP] Screen Saver Password?

[David Morley]

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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