x11/gnome-screensaver-2.22.1 is not unlocking screen on entry
of correct password.
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Sun Apr 6 17:51:11 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 23:07 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
> >>>>> Joe Marcus Clarke writes:
> Joe> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:59 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Whenever I try to unlock my screen, locked using gnome-screensaver, it
> >> doesn't accept my password, rejects with "Incorrect password". I'm
> >> running x11/gnome-screensaver-2.22.1 . Any ideas what is causing this ?
> >> And BtW, I've compiled gnome-screensaver-2.22.1 with PAM support.
> >>
> >> During password verification, there is some non-uniform delay
> >> (sometime more, sometimes less) .
> >>
> >> Is there anyone else experiencing this issue, hmm...?
>
> Joe> This is typically the case when one builds gnome-screensaver with PAM
> Joe> support, but they are currently using a PAM module which requires the
> Joe> executable be setuid root (e.g. pam_unix). The only workaround is to
> Joe> rebuild gnome-screensaver without PAM support, or use a different PAM
> Joe> module which does not require root privileges.
>
> I've tried copying /etc/pam.d/gdm to /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver, but
> also thats of no use. Any ideas, why is that not working inspite of
> /usr/local/libexec/gnome-screensaver-dialog being setuid, hmm...?
PAM and gnome-screensaver do not work together if you are using
pam_unix. Rebuild gnome-screensaver without PAM support, and it will
instead read /etc/master.passwd directly to authenticate the user. That
will work.
Joe
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