Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:53:47 -0700 (PDT) From: eischen@vigrid.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/11887: Allow xmcd to read ~/.Xauthority Message-ID: <19990525185347.3547015A11@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 11887
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Allow xmcd to read ~/.Xauthority
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue May 25 12:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Daniel Eischen
>Release: 3.2-stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD klr1.clc.gdeb.com 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #0: Mon May 24 11:31:27 EDT 1999
(i386)
>Description:
When using xauth-style authentication, xmcd cannot read a users
~/.Xauthority. This problem was reported by Thomas Gellekum
(tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de).
>How-To-Repeat:
Use xauth-style authentication.
>Fix:
Thomas Gellekum (tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de) provided a new patch file
for xmcd. A diff to the xmcd port follows.
diff -crN /usr/ports/audio/xmcd/patches/patch-af ./patches/patch-af
*** /usr/ports/audio/xmcd/patches/patch-af Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
--- ./patches/patch-af Tue May 25 12:36:53 1999
***************
*** 0 ****
--- 1,40 ----
+ --- xmcd_d/main.c.orig Sat Apr 24 03:41:00 1999
+ +++ xmcd_d/main.c Sun May 23 11:55:01 1999
+ @@ -151,6 +151,8 @@
+ {
+ int i;
+ Display *display;
+ + uid_t euid, ruid;
+ + gid_t egid, rgid;
+
+ /* Error message stream */
+ errfp = stderr;
+ @@ -201,6 +203,16 @@
+ }
+ }
+
+ + /* get real IDs */
+ + ruid = getuid();
+ + rgid = getgid();
+ + /* save effective IDs */
+ + euid = geteuid();
+ + egid = getegid();
+ + /* give up root until we have a connection to the X server */
+ + (void)seteuid(ruid);
+ + (void)setegid(rgid);
+ +
+ /* Initialize X toolkit */
+ widgets.toplevel = XtVaAppInitialize(
+ &app_context,
+ @@ -210,6 +222,10 @@
+ NULL,
+ NULL
+ );
+ +
+ + /* Ok, back to root */
+ + (void)seteuid(euid);
+ + (void)setegid(egid);
+
+ /* Get application options */
+ XtVaGetApplicationResources(
+
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