Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:52:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-screensaver configures with --disable-pam Message-ID: <20060504125121.T81868@creme-brulee.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1146757556.28376.3.camel@triton.mcneil.com> References: <1146757556.28376.3.camel@triton.mcneil.com>
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On Thu, 4 May 2006, Sean McNeil wrote: > > Why??? > > I remember this was discussed about xscreensaver at one time and was > fixed. Is there any reason at all why --disable-pam has been set in the > configure for x11/gnome-screensaver? I took this offensive setting out > and I can once more lock my screen. Naturally, with it in I get errors > and it fails to lock because I happen to use PAM with LDAP to get > usernames and passwords. Not good. It was basically adapted from xscreensaver-gnome to give equivalent default behavior. The first few releases of g-s didn't do well with PAM anyway. I haven't tested it recently, but if you know it works, please provide a patch, and the PAM support will be re-done. Joe > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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