Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:43:47 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> To: <djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl>, "Steve Price" <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: troubles with X Message-ID: <004a01bf5317$56bc56c0$0100a8c0@veldy.org> References: <Pine.OSF.4.21.9912271819010.7461-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> <19991230233327.A16271@relativity.student.utwente.nl>
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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" <djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl> To: "Steve Price" <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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