Re: pkg/46271: x11/xlockmore built w/pam fails all authentication attempts, won't unlock screen

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:32:27 -0500
"John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:

> With the default example "xlock" pam configuration, it still couldn't
> authenticate to unlock the screen.
>
> I then built security/pam-pwauth_suid and adjusted the "xlock" pam
> configuration accordingly.  Only then was xlock able to successfully
> authenticate and unlock the screen.

Can you try again without pwauth_suid? Without the "bad-pam" option
just added, the program will give up the privileges gained by
the suid bit before the actual authentication. This works for
some PAM implemtations, but not for NetBSD's (unless pwauth_suid
is used).

best regards
Matthias


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