Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4343 mails)

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaid.gaffoor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, didn't send this to the list

yes, you are correct and KDE gives  a nice warning when you set the suid 
bit...

so it has to be 0755

I actually am having problems with kceckpass now, it's telling me that 
perfectly valid passwords are invalid...

Anders Johansson wrote:

> On Monday 18 November 2002 16.33, Peter Nixon wrote:
>  
>
> > Did you run harden_suse or something similar?
> > /opt/kde3/bin/kdesktop_lock should have permission 4755 just like su to be
> > able to unlock the screen..
> >    
>
> That sounds like a security risk to me. Doesn't kdesktop_lock run the 
> screensaver? All a user would have to do is to install his own screensaver, 
> properly made of course :), and he'd be root.
>
> /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass on the other hand should be suid
>
>  

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