This was extremely bad practice, effectively making the program behave different depending on which architecture you are running it on. OpenBSD offers getpwuid_shadow, but there is no getspuid for getspnam, so we resort to using the pw_name entry in the struct passwd we filled earlier. This prevents slock from crashing when $USER is empty (easy to do). If you want to run slock as a different user, don't use $ USER="tom" slock but doas or sudo which were designed for this purpose.
slock - simple screen locker
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simple screen locker utility for X.
Requirements
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In order to build slock you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (slock is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slock
(if necessary as root):
make clean install
Running slock
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Simply invoke the 'slock' command. To get out of it, enter your password.
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