Re: Help, xscreensaver won't unlock on Sol8

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

Hmm, back up the xscreensaver file, and copy over it either the "other"
file, or the "login" file.  Just make sure those have the right security
permissions for what you need.  ~,^

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:52, Gary Gutman wrote:
> 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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