From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 28 1:24:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from chmls11.mediaone.net (chmls11.mediaone.net [24.128.1.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28C515466 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 01:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from visi.com (h-180-107.mn.mediaone.net [209.32.180.107]) by chmls11.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA05748; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 04:24:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38688258.83CA791C@visi.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 03:26:48 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19991227-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clive Lin Cc: FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: Problem with PAM-AUTH for XFree86? References: <002d01bf50f0$a8491c40$0100a8c0@veldy.org> <19991228133857.A50959@host.cer.ntnu.edu.tw> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nope! Not too tricky. Should this be added to the file permanantly, or perhaps as part of the port? Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com Clive Lin wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 11:01:50PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just got my box up and running Current 12-27. ATA works great for both drives now. However, I compiled XFree86 from the port and I chose the options for RPC, Wraphelp.c, PAM and threads. When I start x (using startkde), I get many many password prompts. I can only assume that the PAM module used for athentication by XFree86 is broken. Is the owner aware of this? > > > > I recompiled without PAM support and everything works as expected. > > > Hi! > I dunno if this is tooo tricky, but I added a single line to solved the > same question as yours. the xserver line... > > X clive@cartier ~> tail -5 /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 > X clive@cartier ~> > > -- > CirX > Clive Lin > > FreeBSD - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message