Re: Help, xscreensaver won't unlock on Sol8

[Gary Gutman <mrgaryg yahoo com>]

Sean, the only file I have in /etc/pam.d is the
xscreensaver file. Nothing else. Are you saying that I
should copy /etc/pam.conf file to
/etc/pam.d/xscreensaver?

Thanks
Gary
--- Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com> wrote:
> 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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