Hello dear OpenBSD, I had a look around the system today, actually I think I musta been high these last few weeks/months because xlock ceased authenticating. Now I took a look at the /etc/spwd.db file and here are its permissions:
-rw-r----- 1 root _shadow 40960 Sep 19 17:15 /etc/spwd.db Notice: group _shadow This is important. -rwxr-sr-x 1 root auth 2303706 Aug 18 06:49 /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock That's the permissions of xlock, on OpenBSD/amd64 and OpenBSD/i386. How exactly is OpenBSD's xlock communicating with the master password file? Is there another program it exec's that is setgid to _shadow? Just wondering, seems kinda odd.. Please help me for I am a blind man, and the system is complex. (plus I don't have the XF4 sources handy, to go through the xlock sources..) Have a nice day, -p -- Here my ticker tape .signature #### My name is Peter Philipp #### lynx -dump "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pufferfish&oldid=20768394"; | sed -n 131,136p #### http://centroid.eu #### So long and thanks for all the fish!!!
