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Date:      Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:16:04 +1000 (EST)
From:      Sleepless in Brisbane <snowy@snowy.org>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>, djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: troubles with X
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912311112310.84398-100000@snowy.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.9912301707320.30489-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Steve Price wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> 
> # Here is the answer I was given by somebody on this list last week.
> # 
> # #/etc/pam.conf
> # # tricky tricky forgive me
> # xserver auth    sufficient      pam_permit.so                   no_use
> # # If we don't match anything else, default to using getpwnam().
> # other   auth    required        pam_unix.so
> # try_first_pass
> # other   account required        pam_unix.so
> # try_first_pass
> 
> This is really not a 'fix' per se.  It is more like a workaround
> as it disables PAM without having to recompile X.  Or at least that's
> the way I read it.
> 
> Surely there is a way to really use PAM authentication?  If this *is*
> the official fix then I should probably commit it to src/etc/pam.conf
> because everyone setting up a new system is going to run into this
> very same problem if they install X.

On a side note I found this fixed a problem with logging in via XDM that I
have been seeing lately as well but just haven't had the time to track
down; so it could certainly be helpful for more than just those running local
displays.



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