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kdebase-workspace package

  1. Bug #92932
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 92932

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z3non (tom-uttenthaler) wrote :

I've found out, that the problem lies in the permissions of /etc/shadow, which were wrong in my system for some reason, as I explained it in #279560. So if this gets fixed (I assume in base-passwd), the permissions of kcheckpass can be set the following way:

$ sudo chgrp /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kcheckpass
$ sudo chmod 2755 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kcheckpass

It doesn't need the SUID bit, GUID bit and the appropriate group is enough, when /etc/shadow has the right permissions (owned and readable by group 'shadow')

regards,
tom