From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 2 2:20: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D65E14F34; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 02:19:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 2 Oct 1999 10:19:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:19:51 +0100 From: David Malone To: se@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Lachlan O'Dea , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE 1.1.2 - screensaver password problem Message-ID: <19991002101951.A4399@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <37F00AD3.FD00F4BA@aba.net.au> <19990928111955.A481@vet.com.au> <19991002003726.B614@dialup124.zpr.uni-koeln.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <19991002003726.B614@dialup124.zpr.uni-koeln.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:37:26AM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: > I'll look into this. The screen-savers are not installed SUID > because of changes in a script. I had fixed this in 1.1.1, but > the old fix did not apply and I forgot to test, whether a new > 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? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message