Problem with new PAM and xdm

Johannes Hofmann johannes.hofmann at gmx.de
Sun Feb 1 08:22:14 PST 2009


Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> :>    xdm.
> :> 
> :>    Is anyone else seeing this problem?  Basically xdm stops working.
> :>    You login to X and it just seg-faults and goes back to the console.
> :
> :Yes, I'm also seeing that.
> :  
> :  Johannes
> 
>    Sephe found similar bugs reported w/ linux and FreeBSD.  It's a bug
>    in xdm but the easiest solution is to adjust the PAM config file for
>    xdm.
> 
>    Comment out the 'session' line in /etc/pam.d/xdm and the problem
>    should go away.

Yes, that helps.

Thanks,
Johannes

> 
>    I will change the defaults in the repo.
> 
>                                        -Matt
>                                        Matthew Dillon 
>                                        <dillon at backplane.com>





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