Re: xlock on 2.5

[Jeff Bachtel <sebastion@irelandmail.com>]

Nope, it was with a simple password. As Tobias informed me in private
email, I had untarred the X archives with tar xzf, insteap of tar xzpf,
and the suid bit on xlock had not been preserved. I won't be able to test
until the morning, but this was almost certainly my screwup.

Thanks for all the help, everyone :)

jeff

> 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
> 

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