] [On Oct 13, Frank Cusack wrote:] ] Subject: Re: Annoying Solaris/CDE/NIS+ bug ] dbell <dbellat_private> writes: ] ] > I didn't see this, or anything similar to it in the archives, but please ] > forgive me if it's well known: ] > ] > If a Solaris 2.6 host is a NIS+ client, and any user other than root is ] > running CDE at the console, CDE's screen locking feature does not work. ] > Any random string is sufficient to unlock to console. Obviously, this is ] ] The bug has nothing to do with NIS+. The CDE screenlocker (dtsession) ] accepts either the user's password or the root password to unlock ] the screen. Not true. I've seen this at several sites (and root's password was _definitely_ not empty). Here's the first paragraph from Sun's bug report... ------------------------ 8< ------------------------------------------ Bug Id: 4115685 Category: cde Subcategory: screenlock State: integrated Synopsis: CDE screen lock not working properly for nis+ users Description: login in as a nis+ user, using lock from CDE front panel, screen locks but at the prompt any password, even no password unlocks the screen. root user doesn't have this problem. Xlock doesnot have this problem. multiple machines have the same problem. all the recommended patches are installed, problem happens even for newly defined users. ------------------------ 8< ------------------------------------------ ] ] When root doesn't have a password, it accepts anything. A bug? hardly. ] Install a root password. see above ... ] ] [...] ] ] -- ] Frank Cusack + Today's Haiku No keyboard present ] Icon CMT Corp. + error message: Hit F1 to continue ] PGP: C001AA75 + Zen engineering? ]-- End of excerpt from <fcusackat_private> -- - Allen V E R I O Consulting Group _____________________________________________________________________ Allen Myers . Chief Technology Officer url: socal.verio.net e: myersat_private t: 800/273.5600 8001 Irvine Center Drive t: 949/450.8400 Suite 1200 f: 949/450.8410 Irvine, CA 92618-2934 24 hour Tech Support: 888/306.4638 _____________________________________________________________________ >>>> Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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