Re: Unlocking xscreensaver as root

[Lee Johnson <lee imyourhandiman com>]

help..:)

i can NO longer get into startx
I did something dumb  ? and can't get into my desktop anymore...

so I went to runlevel 3 and issued
startx
..said command not found...

what can I do to find out why and what happened that desktop won't come up..

thanks
lee


Juan Martinez wrote:

> The xscreensaver manpage says it should work.
>
> I know I used to be able to unlock it with either passwd.  I remember
> when I found that feature.  I have 2 similar installations
> (one at work and one at home).  At work either password
> unlocks the screen.   It definitely doesn't work at home.
>
> This is so weird.
>
> Juan
>
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, MJ Dainty wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:33:06 +0100 (BST)
> > From: MJ Dainty <madmatt@bits.bris.ac.uk>
> > To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> > Subject: RE: Unlocking xscreensaver as root
> >
> > Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> >
> > | Are you saying that if I lock my screen, someone could come along and unlock it
> > | without knowing my password or root's password?
> >
> > You can't use Ctrl+Alt+F? to get to a virtual terminal when the
> > screensaver is running, I've tried with 3.25 and it won't let you, it just
> > brings up the password box. If you got to a virtual terminal you'd still
> > need either root or the user login to be able to kill the screensaver
> > process, unless your system is buggy enough to let anyone kill any
> > process...
> >
> > In the above case, it is common for the superuser to be able to override
> > the password, so only the active user or root can disable the screensaver.
> > But they should be the only cases...
> >
> > I'm also curious why I can't use root password to unlock the screensaver,
> > I'm sure I used to be able to...but maybe it's my imagination.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
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