From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 30 14:43:28 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 0C946153C0 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from barley (nic-25-c116-158.mn.mediaone.net [24.25.116.158]) by chmls11.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA01930; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:41:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <004a01bf5317$56bc56c0$0100a8c0@veldy.org> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: , "Steve Price" Cc: References: <19991230233327.A16271@relativity.student.utwente.nl> Subject: Re: troubles with X Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:43:47 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here is the answer I was given by somebody on this list last week. #/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 Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave J. Boers" To: "Steve Price" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 4:33 PM Subject: Re: troubles with X > On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 06:28:02PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > > For some reason now I can't startx(1) as either myself or root. > > I type startx and the PAM auth routines loop forever printing > > out 'Password:'. I comment out the last two lines in /etc/pam.conf > > and I get an authentication failure (as I should). > > I'm having the same problem. Cvsupped and recompiled -current just a few > hours ago. Then I recompiled X 3.3.5 and installed it. Now I can't start X > anymore either. Lines containing "Password:" just keep scrolling over my > terminal. The password lines are being generated by xinit. Just plain "X" > works. > > > Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? What is the correct > > method to start X on -current nowadays? > > AFAIK you're doing it correctly. > > Can someone PLEASE help out here? It's getting a bit annoying. > > Regards, > > Dave Boers. > > -- > djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl > be afraid, . . . be *very* afraid > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message