Re: xscreensaver and locking

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:35:45 -0400 (EDT)
> "Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, July 20, 2006 1:07 pm, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >
> > > No, I think this is a local PAM problem. Did you change anything in
> > > /etc/pam.d?
> > I added a 'xscreensaver' file, which I copied from 'other'.  I did try a
> > few variations on that, but it should be enough.
>
> 	I found this problem too - a chmod +s /usr/pkg/bin/xscreensaver
> made it work, but I had been hoping that pam would make this unnecessary.

no, pam needs the binary to run as root, otherwise it can't access master.passwd etc.  a pretty stupid design :/

cheers
 simon

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