Re: [dev] slock with non-system auth

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:29:48PM +0100, markus schnalke wrote:
> [2009-12-20 12:03] Moritz Wilhelmy <crap_AT_wzff.de>
> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:53:02AM +0100, markus schnalke wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe we could give slock a system account to check the password
> > > against. Thus it must not to be the own account, but can be a special
> > > slock system user, which exists just for this task.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately only root users will have the ability to set different
> > > passwords then.
> >
> > And only root-users will be able to use slock then, so it doesn't
> > work for people working on public machines, for instance at university.
>
> They still can use it with their account password, but not with a
> different one.
>
> It is no solution to the problem. It was more a thought to the topic.
>
>
> meillo
>
>

doesn't work at my university because we have NIS shared accounts
and afaik slock just reads shadow

Moritz
Received on Sun Dec 20 2009 - 15:13:58 UTC