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.
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