Re: gdm: shadow unfriendly

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Miguel de Icaza writes:
>I dont think we can fix this unless we make gdm suid root, or make gdm
>run as root always.  

Naw, just pamify it...  Anyone using shadow ought to be using pam
anyway...:-)

pam has a special helper application that allows programs running as
a normal user to authenticate that user's password (but no other
users' passwords, so it can't be used as a cracking tool).

FWIW,

michaelkjohnson

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