[ale] xscreensaver problem

[Avery Ceo]

You would be looking for a line like:
auth       sufficient      pam_krb5.so

All of the other suggestions are more likely, and unless somebody else is
administering your computer (in which case you probably don't want to touch
your PAM settings), you would know if you were using Kerberos because it
would have taken some setup (and a Kerberos server).  If you can log in to
the computer with the network cable unplugged, this isn't the problem.

It was a long shot I threw out there in case you were using Kerberos for
single sign-on and had already troubleshot the easier stuff.

Avery

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> Dev Null wrote:
> >> Love to check that out, pointers as to where to look?
> >
> > Edit /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver
> > Look for a kerberos line.
>
>
> So what should I be looking for?  This is Mandriva, but the only thing I
> see uncommented:
>
> # Fedora Core 5:
> auth       include      system-auth
>
> Then there are these commented examples:
>
> # Fedora Core 2:
> #auth       required    pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>
> # Red Hat 7.3:
> #auth       required    pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>
> # SuSE 9.0: (along with "configure --with-passwd-helper" and
> "unix2_chkpwd")
> # auth     required       pam_unix2.so  nullok
>
> # Distant past:
> # auth       required   pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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