Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 22:49:05 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com> Cc: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 from ports Message-ID: <389E6AE1.66C9BF0D@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002021100220.1010-100000@tetron02.tetronsoftware.com>
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Gene Harris wrote:
>
> Well, a little bit of scanning of the mailing list archives
> and a look at the documentation will help this situation.
> If you compiled XFree86 with PAM support, then you may need
> to add the following entry to your pam.conf file in order to
> log in.
>
> # Don't break startx
> xserver auth required pam_permit.so
>
> BTW, I had the same problem as you, but a quick scan of the
> archives turned up the answer very quickly. To my
> amazement, this entry existed in the file
> /usr/src/etc/pam.conf. I had forgotten to move it into /etc
> after updating to 3.4.
mergemaster is your friend. :) Seriously though, I don't see that line in
my 3.4-Stable updated on 1/30. There are 5 lines, the one that seems to
apply is:
xdm auth required pam_unix.so
I finally decided to give up on pam for xdm, I just built it without pam.
Doug
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