From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 7: 8:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3811A37BC0E for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 07:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA40882 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 3 May 2000 09:08:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 09:08:24 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PAM auth problem in gdm (trying to port) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm currently trying to port gdm, a very nice xdm replacement, and have hit a snag with PAM and authentication. Perusing the man page for PAM was not much help. :-( I copied the entries for xdm in /etc/pam.conf, changing xdm to gdm, but still no go. Here's what I'm seeing in the gdm debug output: gdm[34613]: Couldn't authenticate :1: error: unexpected character `\222', expected keyword - e. This repeats three times, then: gdm[34613]: Couldn't open session for conrads Again repeating three times. It seems that gdm wants to use /usr/local/etc/pam.d for authentication, as it creates this dir on installation (I've deleted this dir, by the way), but I'd rather it just worked with the standard /etc/pam.conf. Any clues? -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message