<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Avery Ceo wrote:<br>
> Less likely, but if the system is using Kerberos authentication check<br>
> your PAM configuration. If your display manager knows to authenticate<br>
> with Kerberos but xscreensaver doesn't, I've seen this happen after the<br>
> initial ticket expires.<br>
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</div>Love to check that out, pointers as to where to look?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>/etc/pam.d, but from there it can be fairly convoluted and distro-specific. </div><div><br></div><div>Run something like "grep pam_krb5.so *". On Ubuntu, the entries should be in common-foo (account, auth, session, and password for me). On Redhat and variants, they should be in system-auth. Your red flag is if they aren't there, but show up in files named "login", "entrance", "xdm", etc.</div>
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> Avery<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> is it xscreensaver on one specific to gnome or kde? The gnome one<br>
> has been flakey on occasion with passwords.<br>
><br>
>> On Feb 2, 2010 9:19 PM, "Geoffrey" <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> For whatever reason, every now and again, xscreensaver goes brain dead<br>
>> and won't accept my password. I have to switch to a virtual terminal,<br>
>> kill the process, then go back to X and restart it.<br>
>><br>
>> Anyone have any idea why it does that?<br>
>><br>
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<div><div></div><div class="h5">Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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