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From: fn@fractal.math.yale.edu (Francois Normant)
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Subject: Re: Password Verification
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Date: 11 Jun 91 19:18:42 GMT
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In article <16390@smoke.brl.mil> somsky@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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