On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:50:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > When the gnome desktop signs me out due to inactivity it shows a screen > > > with my name on it and asks for a password. It wont accept my password, > > > the same password I used to start gnome. > > > > Which distribution? Seems like the files in /etc/pam.d are not correct > > (differences between *gdm* files and *gnome-screensaver* ones. > > > My system is Debian Squeeze and gnome-session 2.30.2-3 is installed. > > The gnome-screensaver file has fewer entries but they match entries in > the gdm file: > > > tom@dragon:/etc/pam.d$ less gdm > #%PAM-1.0 > auth requisite pam_nologin.so > auth required pam_env.so readenv=1 > auth required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale > @include common-auth > auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so > @include common-account > session required pam_limits.so > @include common-session > session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start > @include common-password > gdm (END) > > tom@dragon:/etc/pam.d$ less gnome-screensaver > @include common-auth > auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so > gnome-screensaver (END) For me, the gnome-screensaver also has: auth include system-auth auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so account include system-auth password include system-auth session include system-auth so auth, account, password and session. Could you put those bits from gdm into gnome-screensaver? -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list