Re: xlock on 2.5

[Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>]

You wrote (in your message from Sunday 4)
 > I recently got a new hard drive, so I thought I would put xfree86 on my
 > OpenBSD 2.5 box at home. I untarred all of the X binary packages off the
 > cdrom (ie xbase, xfont, etc), did the basic setup, suid' Xwrapper, and
 > managed to fire up X pretty OK. However, when I do an xlock, neither my
 > user password nor my root password will unlock the system (I tried
 > explicitly stating -allowroot to xlock). The username that xlock seems to
 > be expecting is correct. I have also tried stuffing a password into
 > .xlockrc file, but that also did not work (I encrypted it beforehand with
 > "encrypt"). I've searched the ML archives, but haven't seen this problem
 > mentioned, sorry if its a FAQ

Do you have some strange characters in your passords, like function
keys or composed characters ? the entry widget of xlock may not
interpret them correctly. Can you try with a simple passord ? 

Also make sure that xlock is installed setuid root. This is required
to read the encrypted password (although it should work without setuid
with a .xlockrc). 
-- 
					Matthieu