[kde-solaris] KCheckpass on Solaris 8
Paresh Pitalia
kde-solaris@mail.kde.org
Mon Nov 11 19:48:11 2002
chmod 4755 /etc/shadow
Thats all I did and it started working.
--- Joshua Symons <vmcore@mysun.com> wrote:
> kcheckpass has to be 4755 or kdesktop_lock has to be 4755? by default
> kcheckpass is 4755 on my box and it still doesn't work (passwd). It
> would be nice if kdesktop_lock could simply use a third party app,
> like
> say xlockmore.
>
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> Joshua Symons < vmcore at mysun dot com >
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paresh Pitalia <paresh_su@yahoo.com>
> Date: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:35 am
> Subject: Re: [kde-solaris] KCheckpass on Solaris 8
>
> > Thanks Torsten
> >
> > chmod 4755 worked !!
> >
> >
> > --- Torsten Kasch <tk@Genetik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> wrote:
> > > Hi Ian,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:56:53AM -0500, Ian Reinhart Geiser
> wrote:
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> > > >
> > > > Greetings
> > > > What options do people out there to get checkpass to work on
> > > solaris 8?
> > > > Currently I cannot get the screen to unlock after Ilock it
> because
> > > kcheckpass
> > > > fails? Is this something that needs to be fixed?
> > >
> > > That depends on what naming service(s) you're using in
> > > /etc/nsswitch.conf for
> > > "passwd". If "files" is one of them, kcheckpass needs to be
> > installed> setuid root in order to be able to access /etc/shadow.
> > For NIS this
> > > isn't
> > > necessary, but would not hurt...
> > >
> > > Please note, that in the first case, mode 4711 isn't sufficient,
> > > since
> > > somewhere the readabilty of the binary is checked (don't know
> why),
> > > so
> > > you would need 4755...
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Torsten
> > >
> > > --
> > > Torsten Kasch
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