From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 3 3:34:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dialup124.zpr.uni-koeln.de (1-153.K.dial.o-tel-o.net [212.144.1.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2393E14C85; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 03:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from se@zpr.uni-koeln.de) Received: by dialup124.zpr.uni-koeln.de (Postfix, from userid 200) id DFA2DD59; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 11:48:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 11:48:30 +0200 From: Stefan Esser To: David Malone Cc: Lachlan O'Dea , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser Subject: Re: KDE 1.1.2 - screensaver password problem Message-ID: <19991003114830.A602@dialup124.zpr.uni-koeln.de> Reply-To: se@freebsd.org References: <37F00AD3.FD00F4BA@aba.net.au> <19990928111955.A481@vet.com.au> <19991002003726.B614@dialup124.zpr.uni-koeln.de> <19991002101951.A4399@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19991002101951.A4399@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from David Malone on Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:19:51AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1999-10-02 10:19 +0100, David Malone wrote: > > one was required (sorry). The screen-savers have to run as root, > > since they can't check the users password, else. I do not like > > to have so many additional SUID root programs ... > > I thought they had added a small checkpass program which was supposed > to do this for the screen savers so they wouldn't have to be SUID. I > think it was called kchkpass - I wonder if there is some compile time > option to enable this? A quick test (only kcheckpass SUID root, *.kss mode 0755) did not work. I'll look into this during the next two weeks, but will not be able to do any commits during that time ... Regards, STefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message