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[DOC] Add better docs for shadow passwords
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RESOLVED: MOVED
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Description brtastic.dev 2019-07-13 23:21:21 CEST
Operating system: openSUSE Leap 15.1
Screensaver versions: 0.1.5 and 0.1.6

Screensaver itself was working nicely but for a long time I couldn't have gotten screen locking to work. No prompt for password appears and the system was immediately unlocked after returning from screensaver animation.
Application is generated with -enable-locking flag, which autogen confirms in it's summary. Running daemon in debugging mode gave an error for ConsoleKit not being found and a warning about xfce4-screensaver-dialog not being able to get password.
After digging a bit into ConsoleKit i just enabled systemd (-with-systemd flag), which needed systemd-devel package. Only then I was able to spot an error telling me to chown and chmod xfce4-screensaver-dialog, unless I totally missed it before. It took me half a day to get it to work.
Can we improve docs or add a faq about this? There's no visible indicator that something's wrong, just non-functional locking.
Comment 1 Robby Workman editbugs 2019-07-16 10:28:12 CEST
Created attachment 8779 
Note setuid requirement for bsdauth and shadow auth

I managed to miss the post-"make install" text about the need for setuid as well, so don't beat yourself up too bad :-) Patch attached.
Comment 2 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-25 22:25:15 CEST
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Bug #15713

Reported by:
brtastic.dev
Reported on: 2019-07-13
Last modified on: 2020-05-25

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Sean Davis
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