From kde-devel  Mon May 18 11:53:19 2009
From: Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:53:19 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: problems with kdm
Message-Id: <20090518115319.GC26359 () neo ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org>
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On 18.05.09 13:24:04, sibu xolo wrote:
> the snippet below shows   a tail of the file /var/log/auth.log
> 
> ---------------------
> [ /etc/pam.d ]# tail  /var/log/auth.log
> May 18 10:01:14 clfsX6408b login[2137]: ROOT LOGIN  on 'tty1'
> May 18 10:03:48 clfsX6408b kdm: :0[2176]: pam_warn(kde:auth): 
> function=[pam_sm_authenticate] service=[kde] terminal=[:0] user=[forker] 
> ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>]


> [ /etc/pam.d ]# cat xdm
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth     include        system-auth
> account  include        common-account
> password include        common-password
> session  required       pam_loginuid.so
> session  include        common-session
> #session  required       pam_resmgr.so
> 
> [ /etc/pam.d ]# cat kdm
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth       include     system-auth
> #account    required    pam_nologin.so
> account    include     system-auth
> password   include     system-auth
> #session    optional    pam_keyinit.so force revoke
> session    include     system-auth
> #session    required    pam_loginuid.so
> session    optional    pam_console.so
> --------------------

Apart from the obvious differences between the two files you're listing
here, the one for kdm needs to be named "kde" as that is the service name
that kdm uses per default. You can also see this in the output from
auth.log. More details about this can be found in
kdebase/workspace/README.PAM

Andreas

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