Hello all,
I am experiencing a weird problem with FvwmButtons/fvwm-2.0.42 and xlock under
Solaris 2.5. If I have the following in my .fvwm2rc file:
*FvwmButtons Lock xlock.xpm Exec /usr/openwin/bin/xlock -mode random
xlock does not execute and emits the following error message:
xlock: can't get the user password. Exiting ...
You need to run xlock in setuid root mode on your local machine.
Contact your system administrator.
But, if I run the command
/usr/openwin/bin/xlock -mode random
from the shell prompt it works just fine. And xlock is already suid root:
daneel:15> ls -gl /usr/openwin/bin/xlock
-rwsrwxr-x 1 root bin 94484 Oct 2 1995 /usr/openwin/bin/xlock*
and /usr/openwin/bin is on the local disk, so NFS is not stripping the suid
bits for me:
daneel:16> df -k /usr/openwin/bin
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 242431 195109 44898 82% /usr
Has anyone else seen this problem? Does anyone have a solution to it? Any
help or hints would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan Ehrlich
Software Configuration:
Everything was compiled with SunPRO C 4.1.
daneel:19> uname -a
SunOS daneel 5.5 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
daneel:20> fvwm2 -version
[FVWM][main]: Fvwm Version 2.0.42 compiled on Jun 18 1996 at 14:22:59
daneel:30> FvwmButtons -XXX
FvwmButtons v2.0.42 should only be executed by fvwm!
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Received on Thu Jun 20 1996 - 10:57:38 BST