Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> writes: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 11:43:25AM +0200, Manuel Giraud wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to make a patch to XScreenSaver to support bsdauth (hopefully >> to have it upstream). >> >> So far so good but at one point I'm calling auth_userokay(3) and I >> always get the following error: >> >> xscreensaver-auth: /usr/libexec/auth/login_passwd: Permission denied >> >> AFAIU, this call to auth_userokay(3) is done from the >> 'xscreensaver-auth' executable which was forked from the 'xscreensaver' >> executable. I have tried many combination of ownership and setuid bit >> on both 'xscreensaver' and 'xscreensaver-auth' but I always end up with >> this same error message. Do you have any idea? > > I implemented it then removed it ~15 years ago. > It looks like it wasn't finished but it might be a start.
Thanks… and 15 years later, I'm at the same point as you were 😅. Some things have changed in xscreensaver in the meantime but I might reuse the part where you force the GID to 11 (auth). -- Manuel Giraud
