Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:07:58 +0530 From: wahjava@gmail.com (Ashish Shukla =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IOCktg==?= =?utf-8?B?4KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?=) To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org>, Ashish Shukla =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IOCktuClgeCkleCljeCksg==?= <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> Subject: Re: x11/gnome-screensaver-2.22.1 is not unlocking screen on entry of correct password. Message-ID: <87y77qg9zd.fsf@chateau.d.lf> References: <87d4p3xome.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <1207495285.21780.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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>>>>> Joe Marcus Clarke writes:
Joe> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:59 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Whenever I try to unlock my screen, locked using gnome-screensaver, it
>> doesn't accept my password, rejects with "Incorrect password". I'm
>> running x11/gnome-screensaver-2.22.1 . Any ideas what is causing this ?
>> And BtW, I've compiled gnome-screensaver-2.22.1 with PAM support.
>>
>> During password verification, there is some non-uniform delay
>> (sometime more, sometimes less) .
>>
>> Is there anyone else experiencing this issue, hmm...?
Joe> This is typically the case when one builds gnome-screensaver with PAM
Joe> support, but they are currently using a PAM module which requires the
Joe> executable be setuid root (e.g. pam_unix). The only workaround is to
Joe> rebuild gnome-screensaver without PAM support, or use a different PAM
Joe> module which does not require root privileges.
I've tried copying /etc/pam.d/gdm to /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver, but
also thats of no use. Any ideas, why is that not working inspite of
/usr/local/libexec/gnome-screensaver-dialog being setuid, hmm...?
TIA
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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