Description of problem: The recent kdebase errata update removes the suid bit on kcheckpass which breaks passwd checking with kscreensaver running (ie unlocking the screensaver while running kde.) The original 3.0.0-12 and 2nd errata 3.0.3-0.7.2 both had suid kcheckpass and both worked. Adding suid bit to kcheckpass 3.0.5a errata makes kscreensaver unlocking work again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.5a-0.73.2
for debugging, i needs some informations: if you run kcheckpass and enter your passwort, kcheckpass will check your password and gives a exit code back. what exit code do you get, if you do echo $?, after kcheckpass exits?
Well after looking at this much more closely it appears that having the suid bit set on the earlier 3.0.0/3.0.3 versions was hiding a bug in nss_ldap (I believe.) The workstation in question is setup via authconfig to retrieve user information from an LDAP server (it is *not* setup to do passwd authentication via LDAP.) The person having this problem has a local account on the workstation with passwd and shell but in LDAP he's set as having no shell/locked passwd (he's only supposed to login locally to this one workstation.) Apparently what is happening is kcheckpass gets called by kdesktop_lock to auth the users passwd - ldap is eventually consulted to check if this user exists and then checks the users LDAP passwd - since there isn't one in LDAP it then tries to open /etc/shadow itself - with 3.0.0/3.0.3 suid versions of kcheckpass this works, with the 3.0.5a not-suid version it doesn't and thus fails the users unlock attempt. When the LDAP passwd is synced to the local passwd the suid bit can be removed from kcheckpass on the workstation and it works, otherwise it needs the suid bit to open /etc/shadow itself and check the passwd directly. I see at least 2 bugs here: 1. The user has a local account and nsswitch is set "files ldap" for passwd, group and shadow, so LDAP shouldn't be getting consulted at all (but this has been a long standing issue and isn't that big a deal normally.) 2. via authconfig the system has been setup to pull user info but NOT passwd info from the LDAP server so it shouldn't be checking the passwd there at all (ie the fact that the LDAP server does or doesn't have a passwd set should have no effect on this user's ability to login/unlock screensaver / whatever on the workstation.) 3. Possibly another bug, is nss_ldap trying to check /etc/shadow directly or is that kcheckpass - since all of this should be going thru PAM and nothing should need suid something has a bug here too (probably nss_ldap??) So there is definitely a bug here (or bugs) but it looks like they are in nss_ldap actually - should this be re-assigned to that component?
i assign it to correct component
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