Somebody claiming to be Kurt H Maier wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 01:33:35PM +0100, Michael Stummvoll wrote:
>> so I patched slock to not demant root-rights, but just checks,
>> if the password-query commands are successfull.
>> I also patched the Makefile to do not setuid root but setgid shadow instead.
>Not all distributions even have a shadow group.
I wouldn't take the Makefile patch, but checking if the tool has permission
for what it wants to do, instead of checking if it ts root, seems
preferrable to me.
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