+###############################################################################
+#
+# Check for external password helper
+# On SuSE, instead of having xscreensaver be a setuid program, they
+# fork an external program that takes the password on stdin, and
+# returns true if that password is a valid one. Then only that
+# smaller program needs to be setuid.
+#
+# (Note that this external program is not a GUI: the GUI is still
+# all in xscreensaver itself; the external program just does auth.)
+#
+###############################################################################
+
+have_passwd_helper=no
+with_passwd_helper_req=unspecified
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(passwd-helper,
+[ --with-passwd-helper Include support for an external password
+ verification helper program.],
+ [with_passwd_helper="$withval"; with_passwd_helper_req="$withval"],[with_passwd_helper=no])
+# no HANDLE_X_PATH_ARG for this one
+
+if test "$enable_locking" = no ; then
+ with_passwd_helper_req=no
+ with_passwd_helper=no
+fi
+
+case "$with_passwd_helper" in
+ ""|no) : ;;
+ /*)
+ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PASSWD_HELPER_PROGRAM, "$with_passwd_helper")
+ have_passwd_helper=yes;;
+ *)
+ echo "error: --with-passwd-helper needs full pathname of helper (not '$with_passwd_helper')." >&2
+ exit 1
+esac
+
+