[SunHELP] Screen Saver Password?

[Will Yardley]

Jeff Feller wrote:

> 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 :)

this may be a long shot, but i remember that some window manager type
things (like kde) require that the screensaver program be suid root in
order to work with passwords (since it has to read the shadow file).  so
you might doublecheck that whatever program is trying to authenticate
you can actually read the shadow file. 

this is just a total guess though.

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