Re: setuid bit neccesary for GNOME?

["Ben Ford" <ben kalifornia com>]

That is assuming you run PAM.  Not everybody does . . . .

-b


----- Original Message -----
From: <mcnichol austin ibm com>
To: <allbery ece cmu edu>
Cc: <gnome-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: setuid bit neccesary for GNOME?


>
> Ah yes... I had forgotten about PAM.
>
> I haven't ported that to AIX yet.
>
> Dan
>
> > From allbery ece cmu edu Fri Jan 19 09:35:03 2001
> >
> > It will work on Linux because Linux-PAM will call out to a setuid
program
> > to check the password... which only works for the invoker; the program
> > won't check anyone else's password.  Thus, the user's password will work
> > but root's won't.
> >
> > On other systems which use shadow passwords of any stripe (including
AIX's
> > /etc/security stuff) it must be setuid root.
> >
>
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