[LightDM] Problem with LightDM on Solaris build

[Robert Ancell]

These are required because there are cases where the root daemon
process needs to access files in user directories.  This is to avoid
various security problems with symlinks.  Does Solaris have something
equivalent to drop the privileges?  If we can detect existence of
these function then we should conditionally use them or just have an
#ifdef SOLARIS.

On 29 November 2011 10:57, Brian Cameron <brian.cameron at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> LightDM does not build on Solaris because Solaris does not have the
> setresuid or setresgid functions.  These are used in the file
> /src/privileges.c.  If I #ifdef out these calls, the LightDM code
> otherwise builds okay.
>
> Is the use of these functions necessary?  Would it make sense to #ifdef
> the code so it can also build and work on Solaris?  Any advice about how
> to make this code more portable would be appreciated.
>
> Brian
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