aric wrote:
> Yes, this patch does not fix the problem for me either. I get a 'no account 
> for user' error when attempting to put the password in. 

xscreensaver has to be setuid-root (chown root, chmod 4755) in order
to read account information for accounts in /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow.
Make sure you installed it that way when replacing the binaries.

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        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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