[ale] xscreensaver problem

[Avery Ceo]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> 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.. ??
>

Then you aren't using Kerberos.


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