[ale] xscreensaver problem

[Geoffrey]

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

doesn't exist in any of the files.. ??


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Until later, Geoffrey

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