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| z3non (tom-uttenthaler) wrote Re: [intrepid] xscreensaver unlock fails | #1 |
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I found out, that the problem lies in the permissions of /etc/shadow resp. /sbin/unix_chkpwd
I assume, /etc/shadow should be owned by the group 'shadow', but for some reason it had this permissions:
$ ls -l /etc/shadow
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1133 2008-10-06 19:32 /etc/shadow
after doing
$ sudo chgrp shadow /etc/shadow
it worked, as the program 'unix_chkpwd' has the GUID bit set and is owned by the group shadow:
$ ls -l /sbin/unix_chkpwd
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root shadow 30272 2008-09-23 09:06 /sbin/unix_chkpwd
This should be fixed for hardy & intrepid, as I had this problem on both versions and there are various bug reports out there about similar problems (e.g. #92932)
regards,
tom