On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 01:33:35PM +0100, Michael Stummvoll wrote: > I fresh adopted the maintaince for the suckless-tools package in debian. > Its debian-policy to avoid setuid root binaries wherever this is possible, > so I patched slock to not demant root-rights, but just checks, > if the password-query commands are successfull. > I also patched the Makefile to do not setuid root but setgid shadow instead.
Why do debian people always assume that everyone wants their shit? Not all distributions even have a shadow group.
