RE: Unlocking xscreensaver as root

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain ireland sun com>]

Christopher,

Are you saying that if I lock my screen, someone could come along and unlock it 
without knowing my password or root's password?

Padraig

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> You could always open a virtual terminal and kill
> the screen saver by hand.
> 
> Ctrl+Alt+F# should give you a console.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Christopher
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> From: Padraig O'Briain [mailto:Padraig.Obriain@ireland.sun.com]
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have not installed xscreensaver 3.25 yet, I am using 3.24. Looking at the
> code 
> for xscreensaver one possibility is that xscreensaver is not setuid root.
> 
> Padraig
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> > I'm using RH6.2 and the latest Helix GNOME packages available.
> > Ever since installing xscreensaver 3.25, I can't unlock the
> > screensaver using root's password when a regular user has the
> > screen locked.
> > 
> > Any pointers to where I should look on my system to resolve
> > this problem?
> > 
> > 
> > Juan
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