[5627] in SIPB bug reports
Re: master.passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Thu Nov 9 14:50:56 1995
To: davidz@MIT.EDU
Cc: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Nov 1995 05:55:50 EST."
<199511091055.FAA00339@plucky-new.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 14:22:04 EST
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
>my passwds are correctly stored in /etc/master.passwd, but since that file
>is root-accessible only, xscreensaver would not be able to find it anyways.
>
>Since there is nothing wrong with /etc/master.passwd, xscreensaver should
>be fixed to recognize shadow passwd setups.
well, actually, one of the features of the design of the shadow password
system for BSD4.4 is that well written code should not need to be modified
to handle the shadow passwords. (the program doesn't need to read
/etc/master.passwd
it just calls getpwname() or getpwuid() and if it is allowed to know the
password, it will. The problems was that xscreensaver was not installed
setuid, so it was not allowed to see the passwords. I fixed that. when the
sipb locker releases tommorow, it should recognize your password.
-- yoav
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