On Tuesday 30 January 2001 18:10, Stephan Kulow wrote: > 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 > To: Stephan Kulow > 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 :-). It uses a different service, as for AFS the mode is different. It renews tokens. (I was told so , I don't use AFS myself). Christian -- Is Unix ready for the desktop? See http://www.kde.org The Christian Esken |/ Desktop KDE Developer |\ Environment esken@kde.org KDE - The net transparent free Unix Desktop for everyone