| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Hi A customer has an interesting problem. If he pause Xwindows and type the wrong password then he cannot get in, no matter what he types. They are running DigitalUNIX v3.2D-1 on three ASRV1000 systems and they are running C2-security. The tests we tried was, pause screen and type correct password and we get in. Type wrong password, backspace and type the correct password and we are in again. But type the wrong password and send it with <Enter>, get the error Incorrect password, try again error message and after that it doesn't matter what we type. Try this logged in as root and we don't have the problem. I don't think the problem is related to C2 since we can log in. The problem does not seems to be related to caps lock since we can log in. And I don't think it is related to backspace producing funny characters since we can type the wrong password and erase it and type the right one and get in as long as we dont hit enter. I believe this is a permission/owner problem. Any suggestion to where? The customers work around has been to kill whatever X-related processes owned by the user that he has found. What I have not done yet is a fverify on installed Xwindows kit. The customer can reproduce the problem on all three systems while we cannot reproduce it here. Any suggestions? Regards, Mikael Bringh Unix-gruppen, TSC, Sweden
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| 8763.1 | solved, problems with dxpause and C2 enhanced security | RULLE::BRINGH | Tue Feb 11 1997 08:14 | 17 | |
As I looked into this a little bit more and realized that when I pause the screen I actually start an application, dxpause. Then it wasn't so hard to find notes about problems with dxpause and C2 enhanced security, note 5040.0 in this conference for example. I only had to turn on C2-security and I had the same problem on my system. The patched dxpause and DXpause.uid that can be found at anonymous ftp, alpha.zk3.dec.com, pub/ootb/1367_pause/3.2C (can also be used for v3.2D-1) solved the problem on my system. Mikael Bringh Unix-gruppen, TSC, Sweden | |||||