Package: lockvc
Version: 4.0.5.7
I recently installed this program and noticed a minor bug. If you have a
user that was setup with there account locked for example
passwd -l root
then you are unable to exit the screen saver. Quite a few distro such as
Ubuntu set root up like this so you can only get root access via sudo. It might
be an idea to have a simple check that simply calls passwd --status
CURRENT_USER_NAME or something similar that checks to see if the account
is locked or not and warn the user ideally giving then a chance to stop the
screen being locked. I only suggest this as unless you have ssh or another
way in the system you cant kill the program off.
i know this is not really a bug but maybe if the check is not added at
least make a small note at the top of the --help for this app or man page
I am using:
Linux Maia 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:28:27 UTC 2007 x86_64
GNU/Linux
on ubuntu 7.10
NOTE: I did send this to Guillem jover the package maintainer as could not find
a project homepage for this app. He asked if i would post this bug here
dpkg --status lockvc
Package: lockvc
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 224
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.0.5-7
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libpam0g (>= 0.76), libsvga1, libpam-runtime (>=
0.76-13.1)
Conffiles:
/etc/pam.d/lockvc 6b4e7f1dfa32e1b0360e599ec705771c
/etc/maxlock e118904ac1396bbc76a3e4c2585120ed
Description: screensaver to lock your Linux console(s)
Lockvc is a console-locking-program combined with some nifty vga-
screensavers.
.
All virtual consoles get locked, i.e. you cannot change to another
VC and you can't stop the program by pressing any key-combos. You
can only exit the program by entering your system-password. Root's
password will also terminate lockvc.
.
To make the program available to any users, lockvc is installed
setuid by default. Use dpkg-statoverride if you want to change this.
.
Homepage: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/console
Original-Maintainer: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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