Re: Help, xscreensaver won't unlock on Sol8

[Gary Gutman <mrgaryg yahoo com>]

Sean thanks for your reply.

 In fact I did try doing that, and to no avail. I'd
even tried removing /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver, thinking
that there's a conflict, and that didn't help. But I
keep getting a password incorect message in the log.
Here's a clip of the xscreensaver output to log.

xscreensaver: 13:49:01: 0: suspending pid 2934 (goop)
xscreensaver: 13:49:01: prompting for password.
xscreensaver: 13:49:01: 0: creating password dialog.
xscreensaver: 13:49:01: child pid 2934 (goop) stopped
with SIGSTOP.
xscreensaver: 13:49:01: 0: mouse is at 232,159.
xscreensaver: 13:49:01: grabbing server...
xscreensaver: 13:49:01: 0: ungrabbing mouse (was
0x37).
xscreensaver: 13:49:01: 0: grabbing mouse on
0x3000246... GrabSuccess.
xscreensaver: 13:49:01: ungrabbing server.
xscreensaver: 13:49:11: pam_start ("xscreensaver",
"ggutman", ...) ==> 0 (Success)
xscreensaver: 13:49:11:   pam_set_item (p, PAM_TTY,
":0.0") ==> 0 (Success)
xscreensaver: 13:49:11:     PAM ECHO_OFF("Password: ")
==> password
xscreensaver: 13:49:11:   pam_authenticate (...) ==> 9
(Authentication failed)
xscreensaver: 13:49:11:   pam_set_item(p, PAM_USER,
"root") ==> 0 (Success)
xscreensaver: 13:49:11:     PAM ECHO_OFF("Password: ")
==> password
xscreensaver: 13:49:11:   pam_authenticate (...) ==> 9
(Authentication failed)
xscreensaver: 13:49:11: pam_end (...) ==> 0 (Success)
xscreensaver: 13:49:11: password incorrect!
xscreensaver: 13:49:12: grabbing server...
xscreensaver: 13:49:12: 0: ungrabbing mouse (was
0x3000246).
xscreensaver: 13:49:12: 0: grabbing mouse on 0x37...
GrabSuccess.
xscreensaver: 13:49:12: ungrabbing server.
xscreensaver: 13:49:12: 0: moving mouse back to
232,159.
xscreensaver: 13:49:12: 0: resuming pid 2934 (goop)


--- Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com> wrote:
> You could change the PAM files for xscreensaver
> (/etc/pam.d/xscreensaver
> or /etc/pam.conf), and replace the pwdb entries with
> pam_unix.so.
> 
> On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 11:50, Gary Gutman wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >  I'm running Ximian's version of GNOME on Sol8.
> I'd
> > recently updated xsceensaver to the latest distro
> > 4.01, which apparently requires PAM auth. Now
> > everytime I lock my screen, it won't take my
> password
> > to unlock. I'm forced to telnet in and kill the
> > daemon.
> >  Further digging shows that PAM implementation on
> > Solaris is different to that of Linux. In
> particular
> > the xscreesaver is looking for pam_pwdb.so module,
> > which is missing in Solaris. Sun happens to use
> > pam_unix.so.1 instead to achieve the same
> function.
> >  Is there a way to disable PAM on the xscreensaver
> or
> > fix my problem?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Gary
> > 
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