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Diffstat (limited to 'kdm/kfrontend/kgapp.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | kdm/kfrontend/kgapp.cpp | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kdm/kfrontend/kgapp.cpp b/kdm/kfrontend/kgapp.cpp index b57b4371d..677b5ec2a 100644 --- a/kdm/kfrontend/kgapp.cpp +++ b/kdm/kfrontend/kgapp.cpp @@ -366,13 +366,15 @@ kg_main( const char *argv0 ) // Change process UID // Get user UID passwd* userinfo = getpwnam(login_user.ascii()); - TQString newuid = TQString("%1").arg(userinfo->pw_uid); - // kompmgr allows us to change its uid in this manner: - // 1.) Send SIGUSER1 - // 2.) Send the new UID to it on the command line - comp->kill(SIGUSR1); - comp->writeStdin(newuid.ascii(), newuid.length()); - usleep(50000); // Give the above function some time to execute. Note that on REALLY slow systems this could fail, leaving kompmgr running as root. TODO: Look into ways to make this more robust. + if (userinfo) { + TQString newuid = TQString("%1").arg(userinfo->pw_uid); + // kompmgr allows us to change its uid in this manner: + // 1.) Send SIGUSER1 + // 2.) Send the new UID to it on the command line + comp->kill(SIGUSR1); + comp->writeStdin(newuid.ascii(), newuid.length()); + usleep(50000); // Give the above function some time to execute. Note that on REALLY slow systems this could fail, leaving kompmgr running as root. TODO: Look into ways to make this more robust. + } } comp->closeStdin(); comp->detach(); |