[Nix-dev] PAM for non-suid progs

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Fri Aug 13 13:24:53 CEST 2010


Hi,

On 08/13/2010 12:31 AM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:

> Currently unix_chkpwd is non-suid, hence PAM is usable for suid progs only. 
> I propose to make it suid (as it is done in many distros).

I'm all for it if it means that screensavers will finally work (without making
*them* setuid root) :-)

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