From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 6 22:48:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAA73DCE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 22:48:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA19799; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 22:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <389E6AE1.66C9BF0D@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 22:49:05 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Harris Cc: Gunnar Flygt , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 from ports References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message