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bug#34630: slock: unable to disable OOM killer. Make sure to suid or sgi


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: bug#34630: slock: unable to disable OOM killer. Make sure to suid or sgid slock.
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 16:53:07 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01)

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 04:28:35PM +1100, Carlo Zancanaro wrote:
> None of the programs in the Guix store (ie. /gnu/store) will have setuid or
> setgid set. On a Guix system you can install a slock screen-locker-service,
> which will provide a setuid binary for slock (via the
> setuid-program-service). This is done automatically as part of the default
> %desktop-services. I don't know of a way to do this on a foreign
> distribution.

On a foreign distro I recommend using the host distro's package manager
for things like this. Guix doesn't support setuid programs on other
distros. Please see the manual section Setuid Programs for more info:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Setuid-Programs.html

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