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xscreensaver and passwords on RS/6000

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Mar 10 20:23:29 1992

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 20:22:49 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU


Xscreensaver is now setuid root on the RS/6000, and keeps those
privileges just for long enough to read the user's encrypted password
string out of /etc/security/passwd when it starts up.

  jik

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