On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:21:04 +0100 Nikolas Arend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Nikolas Arend wrote: > > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:46:06 +0100 "Nikolas Arend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> babbled: > >> > >> > >> > >>> David Seikel wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> When I was using SuSE I could never get desklock to work with it. I > >>>> copied the PAM file for entrance to enlightenment, but that didn't work > >>>> either. Entrance works fine with it, and it's config file was itself > >>>> copied from the GDB one supplied by SuSE. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Hmpf. Is anybody else using SuSE and managed to get screen lock working? > >>> > >>> > >> does it work if you run e as root > >> > > > > Ah, yes it does. So then it's not a pam problem in principle? > > > > I take it that the bottom line is that it's a not a problem with e17's > screen lock but with SuSE's pam configuration? basically - yes. other distributions can allow USER (non-root) apps to authenticate a user and password via PAM. suse (and some other distributions) do not (likely the pam modules execute a suid root util on debian/ubuntu/etc. to do it, but not on suse, and as you have shadow passowrds, no access == can't authenticate). basically nothing we can do. ok actually there is - we would have to start splitting out the auth into yet another suid root util to execute - but in this case i might just say "suse - fix your pam, other distributions have managed it, and you can too" as we will be re-implementing something that already exists in the pam world. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
