In article <QG9cd.737$5l3.63@trnddc02>,
"sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> A colleague of mine is connecting to a SunOs 5.9 server from a local SunOs
> 5.9 SunBlade. (I forget the name for this kind of login/window session;
> XDMCP?)
>
> When she leaves the local host unattended, the screensaver comes up.
> Eventually it locks the screen.
>
> When she tries to log back in, her password doesn't work. Searching the web
> and USENET, I thought maybe the root password would work, but that doesn't
> work either.
>
> Any solution? I'm not even sure how to diagnose the problem; all I've found
> so far by internet research is that the process probably responsible for
> locking the screen is dtsession.

Is the caps lock key pressed when you enter either password?

Can you telnet or ssh into the box, su to root and kill the screen saver?

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