[kde-solaris] KCheckpass on Solaris 8

[Karsten Künne]

On Monday 11 November 2002 11:09, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
| On Monday 11 November 2002 10:01 am, Carlos Ku wrote:
| > Ian:
| >
| > Run the command ldd on kcheckpass  and see what libraries are
| > not found by kcheckpass .
|
| All libs seem to be found:
| bash-2.03$ ldd `which kcheckpass`
|         libkdefakes.so.4 =>      /usr/local/kde/lib/libkdefakes.so.4
|         libkdefx.so.4 =>         /usr/local/kde/lib/libkdefx.so.4
|         libqt-mt.so.3 =>         /qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
|         libpng.so.2 =>   /opt/sfw/lib/libpng.so.2
|         libz.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libz.so.1
|         libXext.so.0 =>  /usr/lib/libXext.so.0
|         libX11.so.4 =>   /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
|         libSM.so.6 =>    /usr/lib/libSM.so.6
|         libICE.so.6 =>   /usr/lib/libICE.so.6
|         libpthread.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
|         libstdc++.so.2.10.0 =>   /opt/sfw/lib/libstdc++.so.2.10.0
|         libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
|         libpam.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libpam.so.1
|         libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
|         libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
|         libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
|         libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
|         libresolv.so.2 =>        /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2
|         libdga.so.1 =>   /usr/openwin/lib/libdga.so.1
|         libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
|         libthread.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
|         /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-1/lib/libc_psr.so.1
|
| I have seen this problem on RH and SuSE before if the wrong config opti=
ons
| are passed into configure at build time.  Or if pam is configured wrong=
.
|
| Ideas?

That are quite a lot of dependencies! Usually you have to make kcheckpass 
setuid to root (owner root, mode 4755) and then Solaris ignores the 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting and uses only /lib:/usr/lib as a searchpath for 
shared libs (for security reasons). I got around that by putting in the 
additional library paths into the binary. You can do that either by setting 
LD_RUN_PATH during link time or by using the ld option -R (if you use the 
Solaris linker). If you run "elfdump -d" on the resulting binary it should 
show a "RUNPATH" or "RPATH" or both.

Another way of achieving the same goal is to use crle in order to change the 
system wide searchpath for shared libraries but I didn't try this yet. It's 
supposed to be similar to ldconfig on Linux. But if you use crle in the wrong 
way you can screw up your system really solid.

| -ian reinhart geiser
|
| > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 09:56, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
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| > > Greetings
| > > 	What options do people out there to get checkpass to work on sol=
aris
| > > 8? Currently I cannot get the screen to unlock after Ilock it becau=
se
| > > kcheckpass fails?  Is this something that needs to be fixed?
| > >
| > > 	Cheers
| > > 	-ian reinhart geiser
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| > Carlos
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| > Carlos Ku
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