giacobbe@pilot.njin.net (Jeff Giacobbe) (05/10/91)
Here's a nifty little quirk in the OpenWindows v.2.0 Lockscreen function n(I believe the actual command is 'xlock') The OW lockscreen provides a nice 'life' graphics display and is great for locking your workstation when you're away from it, BUT, I have found a slight bug: When trying to unlock your screen, the xlock program does NOT recognize control characters in your password. For example, if my password was: hi^Gthere (h...i...control-G...t...h...e...r...e...) the xlock program will tell me that my password is invalid!!. Passwords with control characters will work fine anywhere else in SunOS (as far as I know) except the xlock program. So far I've had about three incidents where a user had innocently locked his/her screen under OW, and was unable to unlock it because of control character(s) in their password. Anyone else run across this problem?? Jeff p.s. We're running SunOS 4.1 @xxxxx{==============- giacobbe@pilot.njin.net -==============}xxxxx@ | or | | giacobbe@apollo.montclair.edu |