Re: [dev] slock with non-system auth

Hi,
* Moritz Wilhelmy <crap_AT_wzff.de> [2009-12-20 16:16]:
> 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.
>
> doesn't work at my university because we have NIS shared accounts
> and afaik slock just reads shadow

No this is wrong, it's using getpw*() which is querying the
name service switch (nss).

Cheers
Nico

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