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From:
Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
Subject:
Re: XScreenSaver and bsdauth
To:
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:53:16 +0200

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Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org> writes:

> Le Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 11:43:25AM +0200, Manuel Giraud a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to make a patch to XScreenSaver to support bsdauth (hopefully
>> to have it upstream).
>
> you might want to have a look at

Thanks!  AFAIU, xscreensaver drops its privileges rather quickly and we
cannot use 'auth_userokay' after a certain point.

I'd like to keep this philosophy as far as possible and maybe, as a last
resort, do not drop privileges as slock seems to be doing.
-- 
Manuel Giraud