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Re: KDE 3.1.1: audio group, pam.d?



On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:09:48AM -0800, Albert Schueller wrote:
>  kdm;*;*;Al0000-2400;audio
> 
> This setup actually works.  When a user logs in they are temporarily
> added to the audio group and sound works.  My problem is with the second
> field which represents the tty that the user is logged in under.  For
> kdm from the console this is ":0".  If I use this for the tty field
> instead of the wildcard "*", users don't get added to the audio group
> and there's no sound.  I tried escaping the colon, e.g. \:0, but that
> actually causes a complete failure to login using kdm.  I tried both
> "*:0" and ":0*" Thinking there might be leading or trailing whitespace
> in the tty name, neither worked.  
> 
that's a bug in PAM i reported almost two years ago (and posted a
(partial?) patch, even). i didn't look recently, but last time i checked
they still have not reacted. :(

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