Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> Harri Porten wrote:
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > I just continued my experiment to compile KDE on a machine running HP/UX.
> > Everything's going fine so far except from some calls to seteuid() which
> > isn't available everywhere.
> > I already changed the one in kquickhelp to setuid() which is more
> > appropriate anyway.
> >
> > But what about the ones in kscreensaver.cpp ? Is it safe to drop them or
> > put a #ifdef HAVE_SETEUID around them now that kcheckpass is there ?
> >
> > Quite a few people have worked on main.cpp so I post this request here
> > instead of filing a bug report.
> >
> As far as I know a replacement for seteuid exists, but I'm not sure.
> But using kcheckpass is definitly a good idea. I would even go so far
> to get rid of every password related code in klock and port kcheckpass
> alone.

I would like to remove all password stuff from klock ASAP and rely
on kcheckpass only for KDE 1.1.1.  Is there is anyone who knows a
good reason not to? 

-- 
Martin Jones
mjones@kde.org