On sam, 2008-01-19 at 13:24 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > Hi Loïc, > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:35:57AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > > > It seems odd that changing the pam library breaks it. IMHO it should > > > work with either, since login works with both. > > It's a nice feature of login that it works with both, but > > gnome-screensaver did not ever work with this other pam library, so > > this requires some porting / fixes / compromises; so it's certainly not > > "serious" or "grave". > > Could you please send the problem report upstream then? It is > surprising that gnome-screensaver just does not cope with `normal' PAM > setups. I just converted to pam-unix2 and gnome-screensaver did not > cope with neither thinkfinger nor pam-unix2, so I had to kill it off. > > It should use PAM just like the other programs (not using sudo as an > example, though).
I still don’t understand why you think this is a bug in gnome-screensaver and not in pam_unix2. If this PAM module really requires the binary to be setgid shadow (as what was initially proposed), then the problem is a broken design in pam_unix2. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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