Subject: Re: xlock refuse valid passwords

From: [email-masked] (Casper H.S. Dik)
Date: 9 Mar 1994 12:32:48 GMT

[email-masked] (Charles Bueche) writes:

>Hi all,

>since I have inserted NIS+ in sec level 2, xlock refuse valid
>passwords. I have to remotely log into the Sun and kill the
>process.

Xlock runs as root (for /etc/shadow) and as such hasn't got
permission to read your NIS+ password.

You can remove the set-uid bit from xlock, as long as you don't
have normal users in /etc/passwd

Casper