X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=driver%2Fxscreensaver.man;h=71e8cbfa7ddf070e8fabd1dd8d5c49b75e21291e;hb=186b0b9f1638444c650c9273df38085e0db71e4a;hp=8cef01821af2994f05044d8818f3a60585d1e9f2;hpb=f3e0240915ed9f9b3a61781f5c7002d587563fe0;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/driver/xscreensaver.man b/driver/xscreensaver.man index 8cef0182..71e8cbfa 100644 --- a/driver/xscreensaver.man +++ b/driver/xscreensaver.man @@ -539,6 +539,11 @@ been taken to make this a safe thing to do. It also may mean that your system uses shadow passwords instead of the standard \fIgetpwent\fP interface; in that case, you may need to change some options in \fIconfig.h\fP and recompile. + +If you change your password after xscreensaver has been launched, it will +continue using your old password to unlock the screen until xscreensaver +is restarted. This turns out to be kind of hard to fix. (But remember, +kids! Unix security doesn't do much more than keep honest people honest...) .TP 8 TWM and Colormaps The \fBinstallColormap\fP option doesn't work very well with the