xscreensaver authentication problem

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sun Apr 29 20:01:39 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 13:30 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote:
> Has anyone run into problem where xscreensaver fails to authenticate and 
> know what is causing it?

Are you sure you're not using gnome-screensaver?  There is a known
problem with gnome-screensaver built with PAM support not being able to
authenticate if pam_unix is being used.  In that case, rebuild
gnome-screensaver without PAM support.

Joe

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