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improved screen locker
https://i3wm.org/i3lock
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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password unrecognized #348

Closed dev2projects closed 9 months ago

dev2projects commented 9 months ago

I'm submitting a…

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[ ] Feature Request
[* ] Other (Please describe in detail)

Current Behavior

I type in my password, hit enter and can't get past it. I'm using arch, having sddm installed and enabled. On my Ubuntu i3lock does work like a charm (same machine, same keyboard layout set - delatin-1) . I reboot my system, so I can get into it.

Expected Behavior

Type password, hit enter, and enter system.

Reproduction Instructions

Arch linux, sddm enabled ?

Environment

Output of i3lock --version:

i3lock version: i3lock: version 2.13 © 2010 Michael Stapelberg
kpcyrd commented 9 months ago

I'm guessing this is the 10 minute lockout after 3 failed attempts in the pambase package. You can disable this by editing /etc/security/faillock.conf and setting deny = 0, it's unrelated to i3lock.

dev2projects commented 9 months ago

Ok, changed the config file, and it makes no difference. It does not seem to be a bug of i3lock - I installed xlock from xlockmore, and it seems that it also does not care about me correctly typing in my password. Logging in with sddm is not a problem, and I use sudo without any problems.

I changed the issue descr accordingly. UPDATE: xlock works as root user. i3lock also works as root user.

stapelberg commented 9 months ago

Might be issue #119? Either way, not an i3lock problem, but a PAM/configuration problem.