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Subject:    Re: Password for Lock Screen does not work ??
From:       "Sheldon Lee Wen" <sheldonl () nortelnetworks ! com>
Date:       1999-04-28 13:31:54
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Hi,

Have you checked to make sure the passwd file is alright 
and that NIS services are setup proberly  on you machine.
Try ypmatch, yppass, etc, to make sure it's binding
to the NIS domain. I have KDE running on an HP-UX10.20
machine and have no problem with the lock-screen passwd
problem. Another question: is you passwd valid, have a normal
format or expired? If you haven't logged out in a while it could
have expired and then once you lock the screen your locked out.

Also, I'd check the NIS configuration on the box and possibly 
reinstall or recompile your version of KDE. Check to see if there
are any NIS options when you do the ./configure. 
I got my KDE version precompiled from
a guy at HP so I can't tell you for sure.

Sheldon.
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From: "Lee Wen, Sheldon (S.L.) [EXCHANGE:SKY:7J21:BNR]" <sheldonl@americasm01.nt.com>
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Subject: Re: Password for Lock Screen does not work ??
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:09:54 +0100
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Hi,

Have you checked to make sure the passwd file is alright 
and that NIS services are setup proberly  on you machine.
Try ypmatch, yppass, etc, to make sure it's binding
to the NIS domain. I have KDE running on an HP-UX10.20
machine and have no problem with the lock-screen passwd
problem. Another question: is you passwd valid, have a normal
format or expired? If you haven't logged out in a while it could
have expired and then once you lock the screen your locked out.

Also, I'd check the NIS configuration on the box and possibly 
reinstall or recompile your version of KDE. Check to see if there
are any NIS options when you do the ./configure. 
I got my KDE version precompiled from
a guy at HP so I can't tell you for sure.

Sheldon.

> aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca wrote:
> 
> On 15 Apr, Thomas Oesterlie wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Javier Hernandez wrote:
> >> I did upgraded to KDE 1.1 in Openlinux 1.3 and now like my
> >> normal user the password to unlock the screen does not work
> >> at all.
> >> I have tried to disactivate password in the settings but
> >> it did not worked either.
> >
> > The lock screen password should be the same as the logged on user's
> > password. If the same password doesn't work, are you sure you type
it
> > correctly - maybe you have the CAPS-LOCK down or something (I work
with
> > user support,and having CAPS-LOCK down when writing one's password
is
> > the number 1 reason why passwords don't work).
> >
> >> Any idea how i can disable the password of lock screen or
> >> just write a new password.
> >
> > If you want to change the lock screen password, you will have to
change
> > the password corresponding to your username. Used the passwd command
to do
> > this.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately the lock-screen password does not work for me (or any of
> my colleagues here) either. It used to work but has stopped since.
> We have recently moved to network accounts via NIS and the screen-lock
> password seems to have stopped working at about the same time. I
didn't
> get around yet to test whether it would work for a local account.
> 
> Maybe Javier has a similar situation.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> --
> Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
> Coordinator of Mathematics
> Concordia University College of Alberta
> aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca
> http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow

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