by hello david,Quote:>When this is executed using the mouse the following error is written to
>the xdm-error file the in /tmp directory: xlock: can't get the user
>password. exiting....
> You need to run xlock in setuid
> root mode on your local machine.
>Not sure how to fix, any suggestions would be appreciated.
if your xlock binary is loaded from a NFS-mounted disk,
that is exported 'nosuid' then xlock is no more running setuid root
and so xlock cannot read the /etc/shadow file.
if xlock cannot read your password, then it will be VERY difficult
to persuade xlock to give up its task. ;-)
solution: copy xlock to a local filesystem and do a: chmod 4711 xlock
exporting NFS Filesystems with the option 'suid' is considered
a security problem.