Re: pam question
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
> I'm trying to compile xlockmore with pam support (it's already got an
> enable-pam option.) Doesn't work, though--pam_authenticate always
> returns 7 (auth failed.) Is there some way to find out _why_ it's
> failing? (And if this isn't the right debian list for such a question,
> which would be?)
Did you run it as root? If it cannot read /etc/shadow then it can't
auth. Look for pam_authenticate() in the source if the above is not
the case and gdb it.
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