Hello, I'm using oneiric 11.10 ; i face the same issue, logins work fine, but gnome-screensaver does not; in the auth logs i get a message saying:
Aug 20 20:31:37 hostname unix_chkpwd[17080]: check pass; user unknown Aug 20 20:31:40 hostname unix_chkpwd[17081]: check pass; user unknown Aug 20 20:31:40 hostname unix_chkpwd[17081]: password check failed for user (usernameX) Aug 20 20:31:40 hostname gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=10013 euid=10013 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=usernameX Aug 20 20:31:51hostname ccreds_chkpwd[17095]: error reading cached credentials -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67276 Title: pam_unix returns incorrect return value when not run as root To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/67276/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
