On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:54:30PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Package: libpam-ccreds > Version: 1-6 > Severity: important > > Hey, it seems I can't use xscreensaver together with libpam-ccreds. > When I type in my password xscreensaver will not unlock the screen and > this is printed in auth.log: > > Mar 24 15:09:23 laptop5 xscreensaver: (pam_unix) authentication failure; > logname= uid=516 euid=516 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=root > Mar 24 15:09:26 laptop5 xscreensaver[1086]: FAILED LOGIN 1 ON DISPLAY ":0.0", > FOR "weinholt" > Mar 24 15:09:30 laptop5 xscreensaver[1086]: pam_ccreds: failed to open cached > credentials "/var/cache/.security.db": Permission denied > > I found a reference to this problem here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151914 The bugreport describes the problem in quiet some detail. As long as you can't read/write .security.db only applications with root privileges will be able to authenticate the user successfully. I'll forward the bug upstream. Cheers, -- Guido
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