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Re: pam and kerberos + xlock on Debian



On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:04:54PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Is that really a bad solution?  xlock is designed to be able to be
> setuid.  It's not ideal, but I wouldn't call it bad.

Yes, it's bad. xlock has a history of security problems when setuid,
which is why the debian configuration tries very hard to avoid doing so.
Are there any known problems with suid in the woody/sid version of
xlock? No--but I wouldn't rely on that.

-- 
Mike Stone

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