(x11-wm\enlightenment-devel) e17, pam, and "Lock Screen"...

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Eric Schuele wrote:
> On 12/04/06 13:39, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
>> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:43:06 -0600
>> Eric Schuele <e.schuele at computer.org> mentioned:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently installed e17.  I am having difficulty getting the "Lock
>>> Screen" feature to accept a password.  Presently it accepts any input
>>> (even blank) as valid.
>>>
>>> It my understanding that the problem is that it is not using PAM at this
>>> point (on my machine).  How can I get it to use PAM?  Some folks hint it
>>> is a build issue.  Others say the PAM config files are not setup. but
>>> none offer a concise method to fix it.  Is there some knob I can turn
>>> when building the app?  Or some config file somewhere I can tweak?
>>>
>>
>> It seems, that there're some problems in the e17 lock code. I'll try to
>> investigate soon.
> 
> ok.  Thanks for the response.
> 
>>
>> Sorry for inconvenience.
> 
> No need to apologize.  Its a *-devel edition... bugs are expected.
> 


I've been using that a lot without recognizing it doesn't actually work... Thanks for the pointer.