[kde-solaris] KCheckpass on Solaris 8

[Joshua Symons]

Note that if you build a newer release of kde into a different directory
to test, that this will have to be changed otherwise kde will always
load the previous version lib.

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Joshua Symons &lt vmcore at mysun dot com &gt
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----- Original Message -----
From: "LeBar, Russell" <RLeBar@erac.com>
Date: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:35 pm
Subject: RE: [kde-solaris] KCheckpass on Solaris 8

> As has been pointed out that creates a huge security hole on your 
> system and
> likely indirectly compromises other systems as well. Here is a much 
> saferworkaround (tested with KDE 2.2.*):
> 
> As root, run the following (adjust the /opt/sfw paths as needed). 
> ln -s /opt/sfw/kde/lib/libkdefakes.so.3 /usr/lib/libkdefakes.so.3
> chown root /opt/sfw/kde/bin/kcheckpass
> chmod u+s /opt/sfw/kde/bin/kcheckpass
> 
> 
> -- Russ LeBar
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paresh Pitalia [mailto:paresh_su@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:45
> To: kde-solaris@mail.kde.org
> Subject: Re: [kde-solaris] KCheckpass on Solaris 8
> 
> 
> chmod 4755 /etc/shadow
> 
> Thats all I did and it started working.
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