screensaver does not unlock

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Fri Apr 13 18:40:49 UTC 2007


Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> (Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:35:58 -0400):

> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> (from Tue, 10 Apr 2007 
> > 10:04:11 -0400):
> > 
> >> There is a bug with g-s and OpenPAM in that g-s will not work with PAM
> >> modules that require root access.  The workaround is to use other PAM
> >> modules, or rebuild g-s without PAM support (this is the default).
> > 
> > Yes, without PAM support it works well, but I assume I can not switch 
> > later to a kerberos or ldap setup then, right?
> 
> Not without rebuilding g-s.

Hmmm... ok, makes sense that kerberos and ldap don't need root access.
So either all user local (without PAM) or all users remote.

Thanks,
Alexander.

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