Password Verification

[Francois Normant]

In article <16390 at smoke.brl.mil> somsky at brl.mil (William R. Somsky) writes:
>I'd like to put 'xlock' onto our systems, but I'm having difficulty 
>with the unlock user verification part.  What xlock normally does is ask
>for the user's password and compares this (via the appropriate encryption
>routines) with the entry found in /etc/passwd.  With the passwords stored
>in /etc/security/passwd, however, this fails.  Has anyone worked this out?
>Should I make xlock be suid root? 

Yes it's what I did (chmod 4555 xlock) and it works fine that whay.



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