On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> On Wed, 29 May 2013, Ulrich Wilkens wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> here's a little patch which enables screen locking on BSD systems.
>> (/usr/dt/bin/dtsession must be suid root)
>
> Wow, was that this simple? I was overwhelmed by thinking,
> "oh now you need to plug in a whole authentication logic into dtsession".
>
> //Marcin
>

:) Much of the Linux code to do this was to account for the variety of
passwd formats in use at the time - shadow vs. non-shadow, NIS, and
other vendor specific format changes.  It could probably be simplified
for linux as well, but since it currently works...


-- 
Jon Trulson

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