Re: xdm, pam, pam_group, potato - not working

[nemo@cheeky.house.cx]

Matus,

thanks! I was looking for exactly the same thing, but failed to understand
pam correctly!  

I'm running pam 0.72-9, xdm 4.1.0-9 and login 19990827-20 on Potato, as a
reference. 



On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use potato and try to set up xdm with pam, for being able to add secondary
> groups to users logging in console viia xdm.
> 
> however, using /etc/pam.d/xdm from unstable and configuring group.conf
> didn't help;
> 
> I added this line to /etc/pam.d/xdm:
> 
> auth       optional   pam_group.so

I did this too

> 
> and this line to /etc/security/group.conf:
> 
> xdm ; * ; Al0000-2400 ; floppy,audio,shutdown 
> 

By my understanding of the group.conf file, you're missing a field. I now
have the following two lines, and it works.

login ; * ; * ; Al0000-2400 ; floppy,audio,cdrom
xdm ; * ; * ; Al0000-2400 ; floppy,audio,cdrom

>  I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 

Cool line btw. 

.../Nemo