Hi, > Your configuration files look correct to me. The only thing that springs > to mind is that somehow the process performing the authentication can't > read the contents of the lock because it doesn't have enough privileges. > The server should be setuid root (it drops privileges shortly after > performing the checks), but that might have been changed somehow. Maybe I could ask on the XFree86 list ? > Please run 'rpm -V pam XFree86' and see if it complains about > /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 in any way. I don't think so. Here is the output: [root@hermes dumas]# rpm -V pam XFree86 S.5....T c /etc/pam.d/system-auth .......T c /etc/security/console.perms S.5....T c /etc/pam.d/xserver SM5....T /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/encodings.dir SM5....T /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/encodings.dir missing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/encodings.dir (the missing font and the modified fonts are quite strange, but I don't think it is related with my problem). ls output for some of the X related files: -rwx--x--x 1 root root 1568256 Jan 23 07:23 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 15 18:59 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> Xwrapper -rws--x--x 1 root root 5168 Jan 23 07:23 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Mar 19 14:04 /etc/X11/X -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 ps output with X running: 17718 ? S 1:43 /etc/X11/X :0 Pat
