[kde-solaris] KDE 3.1.1 Solaris 8 32-bit packages

Devendra Deshpande devendra at cadence.com
Wed Apr 23 21:04:53 CEST 2003


On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:55:32 -0700 Marco Walther <Marco.Walther at sun.com>
wrote:
>
> >>>>> "DD" == Devendra Deshpande <devendra at cadence.com> writes:
> 
> DD> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:24:26 -0400 Stefan Teleman
> DD> <steleman at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> I am not sure that KDE can even be run at all on Solaris without
> >root > privileges, at least for install, since there are several
> >setuid root > executables in the distribution.
> 
> DD> I compile, install, and run KDE as non-root. I have not had too
> DD> many problems :-)
> 
> One will be the password check in the screen saver. The little helper
> has to be setuid root to work.

Really? Are you sure?

It has always worked for me (I never install as root).

Devendra


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