Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Good question, but I don't know. The problem I see with Xscreensaver is that
> it is installed suid root on SXCE and thus is unable to read ~/.Xauthority
> from NFS mounted home directories. Removing the suid root did fix the problem 
> for me.

And broke the ability for it to read /etc/shadow for locally-defined
users to be able to unlock the screen.    We don't make things suid-root
without a damn good reason.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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