Port of xlockmore-5.01.2 to latest cygwin port of X11

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Oct 2 22:09:00 GMT 2002


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



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