Re: Password Problem
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:30:11PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:50:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > > When the gnome desktop signs me out due to inactivity it shows a screen
> > > > with my name on it and asks for a password. It wont accept my password,
> > > > the same password I used to start gnome.
> > >
> > > Which distribution? Seems like the files in /etc/pam.d are not correct
> > > (differences between *gdm* files and *gnome-screensaver* ones.
> > >
> > My system is Debian Squeeze and gnome-session 2.30.2-3 is installed.
> >
> > The gnome-screensaver file has fewer entries but they match entries in
> > the gdm file:
> >
> >
> > tom@dragon:/etc/pam.d$ less gdm
> > #%PAM-1.0
> > auth requisite pam_nologin.so
> > auth required pam_env.so readenv=1
> > auth required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
> > @include common-auth
> > auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
> > @include common-account
> > session required pam_limits.so
> > @include common-session
> > session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
> > @include common-password
> > gdm (END)
> >
> > tom@dragon:/etc/pam.d$ less gnome-screensaver
> > @include common-auth
> > auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
> > gnome-screensaver (END)
>
> For me, the gnome-screensaver also has:
> auth include system-auth
> auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
> account include system-auth
> password include system-auth
> session include system-auth
>
> so auth, account, password and session.
>
> Could you put those bits from gdm into gnome-screensaver?
>
Added the above lines to gnome-screensaver, rebooted the system and
waited for it to go to sleep. No luck, my password is still
unrecognized. I must select switchuser and reenter my user name and
password to return to the gnome desktop.
> --
> Regards,
> Olav
>
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