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Re: Port of xlockmore-5.01.2 to latest cygwin port of X11
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:10:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: Port of xlockmore-5.01.2 to latest cygwin port of X11
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:10:56PM -0700, Joseph I. Davida wrote:
>I had to kludge it in order to make it compile correctly on Cygwin (on
>win2k). However, cygwin still does not properly support passwords, so
>xlock is unable to verify the password. This problem affects other
>programs that require password verification as well.
"passwd", "telnet", and "login" (to name a few) all support passwords
on win2k. So, I don't understand why this should be a problem.
cgf