Earthlings and SuSians: SYSTEM SuSE 7.3, GNOME. PROBLEM If I manually invoke xlock, I can unlock it. That's good, and expected. If I allow xscreensaver to lock the screen after a timeout, I can't unlock. That is, I get the unlock dialog, but it refuses to accept my password. That's not good, and not expected. WHAT I HAVE DONE, SO FAR In a web search, I found mention that the problem might be due to shadowing. However, in the documented case, xlock did not work until a config change. In my case, xlock *does* perform properly (implying that the necessary config setting is already in place); it's xscreensaver that does not permit unlocking when the timeout lock option has been invoked. I have a /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver file that contains just one line, as follows: "auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok" Can somebody suggest what I should be doing, or what I should be looking for? It's not critical, since I can invoke xlock manually when I leave my workstation, and can recover from it, but it would be darn nice to have a working-and-recoverable lock-out on my xscreensaver... you know... in case I fall asleep.... Thanks for you rimt -- Kevin McLauchlan Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. "Ultimate Trust(TM)"