Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The upstream is already setuid root, so we shouldn't have to modify a thing
> there, and I believe it already does call XOpenDisplay() as the uid (the
> program doesn't read .Xauthority, XOpenDisplay() in libX11 does). It's been
> a while since I've looked at the xscreensaver code to confirm that though.
>
> Virtually every home directory in Sun is NFS mounted, and yet it works for us,
> so it's not as simple an issue as you describe. Nonetheless, since you
> haven't filed a bug, the xscreensaver maintainer (not me) has no way of
> knowing it's not working for you, and thus won't be fixing it until someone
> reports a bug.
I don't know _why_ it works for you.
It definitely does not work for me.
I have
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and my home dir is mounted via NFSv4 from a Netapp machine.
A possible explanation why you don't see problems although there are problems
may be:
- You mount your home via NFSv3
- You read ~/Xauthority as "user" before starting
xscrensaver
- xscrensaver later gets the locally cached NFSv3 data _even_ _though_
it runs as root....
Jörg
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