Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:26:46 -0700 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-screensaver configures with --disable-pam Message-ID: <1146763606.98779.5.camel@triton.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <20060504125121.T81868@creme-brulee.marcuscom.com> References: <1146757556.28376.3.camel@triton.mcneil.com> <20060504125121.T81868@creme-brulee.marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 12:52 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.
That's the easy part. Just take the --disable-pam out.
1) The default is to auto-detect PAM support so if it isn't available,
it does the right thing.
2) If an administrator doesn't want to support PAM with
gnome-screensaver, simply do not have an /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver.
3) With --disable-pam in, locking is broken on configurations like mine
and it is dangerous not to lock the screen when configured to do so.
--- Makefile.orig Thu May 4 10:20:50 2006
+++ Makefile Thu May 4 10:21:01 2006
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@
USE_GMAKE= yes
GNU_CONFIGURE= yes
USE_GNOME= gnomeprefix gnomehack intlhack libgnomeui gnomemenus
-CONFIGURE_ARGS= --disable-pam \
- --with-gdm-config=${X11BASE}/etc/gdm/custom.conf \
+CONFIGURE_ARGS= --with-gdm-config=${X11BASE}/etc/gdm/custom.conf \
--with-xscreensaverdir=${XSCREENSAVER_DIR} \
--with-xscreensaverhackdir=${X11BASE}/bin/xscreensaver-hacks
CONFIGURE_ENV= CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include -I${X11BASE}/include" \
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