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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 1999 03:26:48 -0600
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>
To:        Clive Lin <clive@GnatS.CirX.ORG>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problem with PAM-AUTH for XFree86?
Message-ID:  <38688258.83CA791C@visi.com>
References:  <002d01bf50f0$a8491c40$0100a8c0@veldy.org> <19991228133857.A50959@host.cer.ntnu.edu.tw>

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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 <clive@CirX.ORG>
> 
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve


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