[Security-Discuss] Xine accessing /etc/passwd ????

	OK guys this is my first post so I apologize in advance for any mistakes...

I noticed my latest XINE, when started from a konsole and provided with a 
filename on the command line, suddenly started giving me the following 
message when exiting ....

	mkdir(/spook) failed: Permission denied

where "spook" is my normal user name. So I was curious and did an STRACE of 
xine which revealed that something in the process was accessing 
the /etc/passwd file and looking up the <root> entry !!?????

IS THIS NORMAL BEHAVIOUR???????


In any case I am attaching the strace output.

OH and while I'm at it, 
	while preparing the attachment I managed to delete a file belonging to 
root:root with only READ access writes to group members or others, and this 
is not the first time the system allowed me to do this. The only  possible 
mitigating factor is that it happened in my home directory and my user has 
full sudo rights but I had not even invoked sudo in that session so there was 
no possibility of "RESIDUAL" rights from a prior invocation. 
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