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#1 2019-02-13 15:45:30

imrehg
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[SOLVED] Xflock4 lock screen doesn't accept password

I'm using xflock4 as a lockscreen with XFCE. I've set up a shortcut so Ctrl+Alt+Del locks the screen. It was working totally fine for a long time until a few days back. Now for a while when I lock the screen, it does not accept my user password (always just returning "Invalid password" errors). I'm clearly entering the right password as e.g. using `slock" or logging in one of the other tty prompts works just fine.

Any idea what can I check or if there's an usual suspect for such issues?

In the logs I don't see much, just an authentication failure. It's very annoying, since if I now lock the screen, I have to restart the machine from another tty to be able to use it again....

Last edited by imrehg (2019-02-13 17:55:40)

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#2 2019-02-13 15:52:40

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Re: [SOLVED] Xflock4 lock screen doesn't accept password


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#3 2019-02-13 17:55:07

imrehg
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Re: [SOLVED] Xflock4 lock screen doesn't accept password

Thanks a lot! The workaround / temporary solution was, from a comment in the bug report, to create a new file enabling authentication for xlock:

echo "auth required pam_unix.so" | sudo tee /etc/pam.d/xlock

Now things work again, while waiting for the update packages too.

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