Author Topic: Cacko 1.2.1 b: Screensaver password lockout (Read 3191 times)

dahukanna · « **on:** June 21, 2004, 12:02:36 pm »

I set the password on the screensaver and it worked the first time. I left my Z for an hour and when I try the password I thought I had set it to, it says \"NO GOOD\".
Is there any way I can bypass the screensaver ? I have the Z attached to a Windows box with SSH.

Thanks.

dahukanna · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2004, 01:16:45 pm »

I got it sorted by booting into pdaxrom, mounting mtdblock3 (/home), copying application data to SD and doing a NAND restore of latest backup which happened to be yesterday.

Moral of the story - backup regularly.

Just out of curiousity, does anyone use the screensaver password protection ?

maslovsky · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2004, 08:05:43 am »

You could have tried to remove the screensaver applet from the SSH terminal and the restart Qtopia.

bluedevils · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2005, 11:15:33 am »

Where is the password stored? Just a reboot stopped the lockout, but I wish to reset the password.

waalkman · « **Reply #4 on:** February 23, 2005, 05:25:33 am »

What's the point of a screensaver password anyways? If someone gets their grubbies on your Z, it's gone.

A password won't do much good there.

bluedevils · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2005, 11:40:29 am »

I think it is useful when you have sensitive info on the Z and it is sitting on a desk. It is harder for someone to just walk up and access the info. Especially if they don't know how to reboot it. I don't think it was ever meant to be a be all, end all of "head of box" security.

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Author Topic: Cacko 1.2.1 b: Screensaver password lockout (Read 3191 times)