Bug 15316

Summary:	xscreensaver should check if linux-pam is enabled
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Jonathan Bittner <jbittner.br.bugs>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	buildroot, yann.morin.1998
Priority:	P5
Version:	2022.11.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jonathan Bittner 2023-02-03 16:20:41 UTC

At present, xscreensaver needs to be setuid root to read /etc/shadow to handle login verification for screen locking.  By having xscreensaver check if linux-pam is enabled and adding --with-pam to ./configure, screen locking can be enabled without setuid.

Note: the relevant utility from linux-pam, unix_chkpwd *DOES* need to be setuid root

Comment 1 Yann E. MORIN 2024-06-15 15:05:07 UTC

Thank you for your report.

The issue tracker for the Buildroot project has been moved to
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