From kde-devel  Mon May 18 15:21:58 2009
From: sibu xolo <sibxol () btconnect ! com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:21:58 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: problems with kdm
Message-Id: <200905181730.06621.sibxol () btconnect ! com>
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On Monday 18 May 2009 12:53:19 pm Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> 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
Thanks a million.  I can now login in via kdm.  

I tried everything except changing /etc/pam,d/kdm  to /etc/pam.d/kde.    
(the time was not wasted however,  I did   cleanup the org7.4 installation)

thanks again.
 
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