Still happening from time to time for me as well.
This is the cure - http://superuser.com/questions/460075/why-does-
xscreensaver-not-allow-me-to-enter-my-password
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i had this problem on xubuntu 15,04
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I know this is an old thread, however this has just happened to me on ubuntu
14.04, I had not made any change to /etc/shadow myself, and this is a fairly
clean/new install. I came across this bug directed from here
http://askubuntu.com/questions/128785/lock-screen-password-incorrect
so this
I've had this problem for a year, maybe more and finally you helped me
solve it! Thank you very much!
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** Tags added: metabug
** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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Ok, through the exploiting myself like Jon Oberheide /etc/shadow got
wrong rights. After resetting the rights of /etc/shadow, there are no
problems any more. Thanks for the tip.
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Before pressing Control-Alt-L:
tale...@myrsky:~$ date ; tail /var/log/auth.log
ke 14.7.2010 19.04.18 +0300
Jul 14 12:17:01 myrsky CRON[2430]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for
user root by (uid=0)
Jul 14 12:17:01 myrsky CRON[2430]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for
user root
What's ls -l /etc/shadow look like? /etc/shadow should be 640, owner
root, and group shadow.
I only ask because I ran into the same issue after exploiting myself
with the recent pam_motd vulnerability. My PoC
(http://twitter.com/jonoberheide/status/18009527979) changed the
ownership of
The owner was root:root, must have changed it by mistake when I put back
password from previous install of Ubuntu. Doing chown root:shadow
/etc/shadow and chmod u=r,g=r /etc/shadow fixed the problem.
Thanks for the tip. Have to be more careful next time I modify shadow
and password files.
So
What does your /var/log/auth.log look like when this happens?
Regards,
Jon Oberheide
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All users accounts I have tried this with have the same problem. I
created a new account just now, even for that user screensaver did not
accept the password. User could log back in to the locked session by
switch user and login from graphical login screen.
Seems my guess the old settings from
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51234025/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: GconfGnomeLockdown.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51234026/GconfGnomeLockdown.txt
** Attachment added: GconfGnomePowerManager.txt
I forgot to say, that this is a clean install of 10.04. I did, however,
have the /home on another partition, so users home directories and
perhaps screensaver settings are from 8.04, which I ran on this computer
before installing 10.04.
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