Re: kdm: authentication failure

[Tobias Kraus <tobias.kraus@stud.tu-muenchen.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2004 15:53 schrieb Jeff Elkins:
> Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin,
> giving me an authentication failure.  Is there a workaround for
> this?
This worked for me:

  cp /etc/pam.d/kdm /etc/pam.d/kdm-np

and removed the following line from kdm-np:

  auth       required     pam_unix.so shadow nullok

I don't know if this opens any security holes. I don't know that much 
of PAM.

Tobias
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Elkins

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