On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:38:35PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
When I try to log in as a user with no password set xdm asks for a
password and fails to verify it.
I can reproduce this problem.
I can log in with no problem using login(8) on the tty, so I tried
cp --backup /etc/pam.d/{login,xdm}
/etc/init.d/xdm
This didn't help. Nor does anything useful turn up in /var/log, even
with "debug" on all pam_unix.so entries in /etc/pam.d/common-*.
Oct 21 17:08:49 Clio xdm[12858]: pam_unix(xdm:auth):
authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=
user=twb
Oct 21 17:08:51 Clio xdm[12858]: LOGIN FAILURE ON :0, (null)
Tue Oct 21 17:08:51 2008 xdm error (pid 12858):
pam_authenticate failure: Authentication failure
This is because the moment xdm asks for a password it already failed
to log you in. It should verify that you actually do have a password
before asking for one.
Thanks
MS
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