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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    [Fwd: Re: Bug#19292: unable to unlock screen when 'password required' is
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-01-30 17:10:14
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Hi!

It seems this whole PAM issue went out a bit untested ;(

Greetings, Stephan

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Bug#19292: unable to unlock screen when 'password required' is checked in  
screensaver section ...kcheckpass works on console
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:03:03 -0500
From: Andreas Pour <pour@mieterra.com>
To: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
References: <3A76EA3E.D5725794@mieterra.com> <3A76EF5E.71EAF101@kde.org>
<3A76F026.C45979CC@mieterra.com> <3A76F0D7.7DDC9C93@kde.org>


Hi,

This solved the problem:

  cp /etc/pam.d/kde2 /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver

Thanks!

We should add this to the kde2.1beta2 FAQ -- that the service name *must* be
kscreensaver, regardless of how you defined it in the configure script.

As to the patch, I think it should be changed to use the service provided to
the configure script, rather than hardcoding kscreensaver.  I don't know why
KDE needs to different PAM services.  Maybe on some systems the same one
doesn't work for both purposes, but it does on mine :-).

Ciao,

Andreas



Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> Andreas Pour wrote:
> >
> > Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > >
> > > Andreas Pour wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I can confirm this problem with the KDE-2.1beta2 release.  I have been
> > > > monitoring the kde and kde-user lists and several others have reported this
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > kcheckpass works fine and returns '0'.
> > > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Do you have a pam module "kscreensaver"? I have no PAM myself, but I know that
> > > kdebase/README.pam 103 lines :)
> >
> > No, I configured it to use the same "kde2" pam module.  This has worked in the
> > past -- is it required to use the kscreensaver pam module now?
> >
> As I said I have no idea about PAM :)
> I only know that someone added a patch to kdesktop to set KDE_PAM_SERVICE to
> kscreensaver
> 
> Greetings, Stephan
> 
> --
> It's my true belief that people having wishes for the bug report tool
> and report it to the author haven't got the idea behind open source.
>                                              anonymous KDE developer

-- 
Ciao,

Andreas Pour

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