[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       pam-list
Subject:    Re: help! pam.d and pam_tally setting mess up xscreensaver login!!!!
From:       Tomas Mraz <tmraz () redhat ! com>
Date:       2006-02-03 8:29:51
Message-ID: 1138955391.3120.1.camel () perun ! redhat ! usu
[Download RAW message or body]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:42 -0800, Christian Seberino wrote:
> Why Debian has this problem but not Fedora?  The permissions
> for /var/log/faillog look the same for both.  Does Fedora
> do some setuid magic or something dangerous to "fix" the xscreensaver?
The default is onerr=succeed. And fedora doesn't use pam_tally at all by
default.

> Chris
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:53 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 16:01 -0800, Christian Seberino wrote:
> > > How come if I uncomment pam_tally line in common-auth file below (Debian
> > > box) I cannot unlock the screensaver with a password anymore?
> > Put there onerr=succeed instead of onerr=fail. xscreensaver in debian
> > cannot access the /var/log/faillog file and thus the pam_tally module
> > fails with error.
> > 
> 
-- 
Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

_______________________________________________
Pam-list mailing list
Pam-list@redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]