[Nix-dev] slock

Александр Цамутали astsmtl at yandex.ru
Wed Nov 30 22:21:40 CET 2011


Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> Hi Alexander,
>
>  > misc/screensavers/slock: New nixpkg.
>
> I tried to run slock (because it's really quite small!), but I get the
> following error message:
>
>  $ slock 
>  slock: cannot retrieve password entry (make sure to suid slock)
>
> Do you have an idea how to remedy that issue (preferably in a way that
> doesn't require slock to run as root)?
>
> Take care,
> Peter

Hi!

I use security.setuidPrograms = [ "slock" ]; Dunno if it's possible to
run such software from unprivileged user.


-- 
Александр Цамутали



More information about the nix-dev mailing list