Jamie Zawinski wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > >> I'm just not going to setuid root xscreensaver, this introduces big >> changes of security holes, (see #295526). > > No, making xscreensaver be setuid is perfectly safe, and in fact, on > some systems, is absolutely required for anything to work at all. > > However, if the system uses PAM, and PAM is configured properly, it > shouldn't be necessary.
Well, it seems is necessary for pam_unix2 :-( -- ghostbar on debian linux 'sid' 2.6.22 x86_64-SMP - #382503 Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/ - http://linuxtachira.org http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org #debian-ve #debian-devel-es San Cristóbal, Venezuela. http://chaslug.org.ve GPG: 0xCACAB118
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