Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.30-1+deb8u2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I am using XScreenSaver 5.36 on Debian Jessie. I have setuid to sonar as mentioned in `man sonar` i.e. chown root:root sonar chmod u+s sonar $ ls -ld /usr/lib/xscreensaver/sonar -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 104016 Apr 15 2016 /usr/lib/xscreensaver/sonar Now, whenever I invoke sonar through xscreensaver by locking the screen it still says "sonar must be setuid to ping" but interestingly when I execute it directly as $ /usr/lib/xscreensaver/sonar it works as expected showing the machines in LAN. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.2-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages xscreensaver depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3+deb8u1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u5 ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3+deb8u1 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.4-1+b2 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b1 ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-1 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-0+deb8u1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1+b1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1 ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.3-1+b1 ii xscreensaver-data 5.30-1+deb8u2 Versions of packages xscreensaver recommends: ii libjpeg-turbo-progs [libjpeg-progs] 1:1.3.1-12 ii perl [perl5] 5.20.2-3+deb8u6 ii wamerican [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wamerican-huge [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wamerican-insane [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wamerican-large [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wamerican-small [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wbritish [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wbritish-huge [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wbritish-insane [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wbritish-large [wordlist] 7.1-1 ii wbritish-small [wordlist] 7.1-1 Versions of packages xscreensaver suggests: ii chromium [www-browser] 56.0.2924.76-1~deb8u1 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.8.0esr-1~deb8u1 ii fortune-mod [fortune] 1:1.99.1-7 pn gdm3 | kdm-gdmcompat <none> ii google-chrome-stable [www-browser] 57.0.2987.98-1 ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:4.14.2-1 ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1 ii streamer 3.103-3+b1 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-19+deb8u1 pn xdaliclock <none> pn xfishtank <none> ii xscreensaver-gl 5.30-1+deb8u2 -- no debconf information