Bug 11872

Summary: xscreensaver.kss ignores -lock option
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component: xscreensaverAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 6.2CC: rvokal
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2000-06-02 22:20:02 UTC 
In xscreensaver-3.23-2 package, xscreensaver.kss contains the following
code:

    -lock)
      if [ ! -f "/etc/shadow" ]; then
        lockmode="-lock-mode"
      fi

which causes xscreensaver to ignore the -lock option when shadow passwords
are used. This is totally unnecessary and stupid - xscreensaver is properly
pam'ified and would work correct with in -lock-mode even if shadow
passwords are used. If the code above is replaced with 

    -lock)
        lockmode="-lock-mode"

everything works fine.

I selected "Severity: security" because this bug causes xscreensaver to
ignore users' requests to lock the terminal.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-06-11 19:01:17 UTC 
Thanks for the fix - should be in xscreensaver-3.24-7.