On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 14:08 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > xscreensaver is trying to disavow write permission into (e.g.) group > "cdrom", and it can't. > > Had your group list contained only one element, "bartvh", it would > not have called setgroups at all (see comments in driver/setuid.c). > > I don't particularly pretend to understand this crap.
The grouplist is the same as the list one get when executing groups at the command line, isn't it? $ groups bartvh cdrom audio video staff plugdev fuse netdev It is quiete normal for a user to belong to multiple groups. > > Is the executable setuid? No, the debian package does not install the xscreensaver package setuid. If I add the setuid bit, it works ok. What I do not understand in this problem is why I would need a setuid executable to be able to drop groups. Bart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
