[kde-solaris] KCheckpass on Solaris 8

[Joshua Symons]

kcheckpass has to be 4755 or kdesktop=5Flock has to be 4755=3F by default=

kcheckpass is 4755 on my box and it still doesn=27t work (passwd)=2E It
would be nice if kdesktop=5Flock could simply use a third party app=2C li=
ke
say xlockmore=2E

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Joshua Symons =26lt vmcore at mysun dot com =26gt
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----- Original Message -----
From=3A Paresh Pitalia =3Cparesh=5Fsu=40yahoo=2Ecom=3E
Date=3A Monday=2C November 11=2C 2002 10=3A35 am
Subject=3A Re=3A =5Bkde-solaris=5D KCheckpass on Solaris 8

=3E Thanks Torsten
=3E =

=3E chmod 4755 worked !!
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=3E --- Torsten Kasch =3Ctk=40Genetik=2EUni-Bielefeld=2EDE=3E wrote=3A
=3E =3E Hi Ian=2C
=3E =3E =

=3E =3E On Mon=2C Nov 11=2C 2002 at 09=3A56=3A53AM -0500=2C Ian Reinhart =
Geiser wrote=3A
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=3E =3E =3E Greetings
=3E =3E =3E 	What options do people out there to get checkpass to work on=

=3E =3E solaris 8=3F  =

=3E =3E =3E Currently I cannot get the screen to unlock after Ilock it be=
cause
=3E =3E kcheckpass =

=3E =3E =3E fails=3F  Is this something that needs to be fixed=3F
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=3E =3E That depends on what naming service(s) you=27re using in
=3E =3E /etc/nsswitch=2Econf for
=3E =3E =22passwd=22=2E If =22files=22 is one of them=2C kcheckpass needs=
 to be =

=3E installed=3E setuid root in order to be able to access /etc/shadow=2E=
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=3E For NIS this
=3E =3E isn=27t
=3E =3E necessary=2C but would not hurt=2E=2E=2E
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=3E =3E Please note=2C that in the first case=2C mode 4711 isn=27t suffic=
ient=2C
=3E =3E since
=3E =3E somewhere the readabilty of the binary is checked (don=27t know w=
hy)=2C
=3E =3E so
=3E =3E you would need 4755=2E=2E=2E
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=3E =3E cheers=2C
=3E =3E 	Torsten
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=3E =3E -- =

=3E =3E    Torsten Kasch                              =

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