Hello ports@

Somewhere down the line between 7.7-current and 7.8, my bsd-auth patch
to x11/emwm-utils to avoid SUID root broke unlocking. Could someone help
me out as I'm quite noobish in C here and I can't for the life of me
figure out what went wrong. I CC'd the person who reported it in the
EMWM-Discuss mailing list. Here's a paste of their original message
sent for more infos:

On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:01:52 -0500
Carson Chittom <carson@chittom.family> wrote:

> This morning I upgraded from OpenBSD 7.7 to 7.8, and in the process
> upgraded from emwm/emwm-utils 1.2 to 1.3, using OpenBSD's prebuilt
> packages. I wandered away from my desk to get coffee, and by the time
> I got back, the display had locked with the built-in locking
> mechanism.
> 
> I entered my password, but it was not accepted (I tried several times,
> of course). Just to make sure something had not gone seriously wrong
> with my user account, I switched to a virtual console to try the same
> password, and logged in successfully.
> 
> In the meanwhile, I am simply disabling locking and just using
> OpenBSD's xidle(1), but I have no real idea how to even troubleshoot
> further. Any suggestions?
> 

Any help would be appreciated.

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