[ale] xscreensaver problem

[Avery Ceo]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> Avery Ceo wrote:
> > Less likely, but if the system is using Kerberos authentication check
> > your PAM configuration.  If your display manager knows to authenticate
> > with Kerberos but xscreensaver doesn't, I've seen this happen after the
> > initial ticket expires.
>
> Love to check that out, pointers as to where to look?
>

/etc/pam.d, but from there it can be fairly convoluted and distro-specific.


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.


>
> >
> > Avery
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     is it xscreensaver on one specific to gnome or kde? The gnome one
> >     has been flakey on occasion with passwords.
> >
> >>     On Feb 2, 2010 9:19 PM, "Geoffrey" <lists at serioustechnology.com
> >>     <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     For whatever reason, every now and again, xscreensaver goes brain
> dead
> >>     and won't accept my password.  I have to switch to a virtual
> terminal,
> >>     kill the process, then go back to X and restart it.
> >>
> >>     Anyone have any idea why it does that?
> >>
> >>     --
> >>     Until later, Geoffrey
> >>
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