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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: Re: Bug#19292: unable to unlock screen when 'password required' is checked in screensaver
From:       Christian Esken <c.esken () cityweb ! de>
Date:       2001-01-30 22:08:42
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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 <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 :-).

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

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