x11/gnome-screensaver-2.22.1 is not unlocking screen on entry of correct password.

[Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> writes:

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    Joe> The setuid privileges are dropped once initialization is done since GTK+
    Joe> apps cannot run set[ug]id.  If they could, or if gnome-screesaver-dialog
    Joe> was not a GTK+ app, this wouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for the explanation, but I've a little doubt here, I saw
implementation of gtk_init_with_args()[1]. So I also noticed that it
checks for calling process to be set{uid,gid} and terminates if it is.

So, even if application drops superuser privileges before
gtk_init_with_args(), then how is it be able to access
/etc/passwd.master ?

References:
[1] - http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gtk%2B/trunk/gtk/gtkmain.c?revision=19481&view=markup

TIA
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