Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
A cannot call this a "solution" as it does not work for me the way it is
delivered
in SXCE-77.
If you do make things suid root for "good reason", you should also modify the
source to try again with euid == uid after the attempt to read ~/.Xauthority
failed.
Jörg
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