Re: GDM and PAM on Fedora Core 1?

[David Gillies <daveg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just built a fresh Fedora Core 1 box the other day and I was having exactly the same issue with it. After googling around for a few hours, I found quite a few people asking for help on this one, but nobody seems to have provided an answer.

One thing that alot of people seemed to get as well in /var/log/messages was

        gdm-binary: Couldn't set acct. mgmt for $USERNAME

Anyway, I started getting desperate to try anything, so I put the full path to the pam modules in /etc/pam.d/gdm

eg.

auth     sufficient     pam_ldap.so

becomes

auth    sufficient     /lib/security/pam_ldap.so

And that fixed it. I've tested this on two workstations now with multiple user accounts and it seems to be all working.

Edward Howe wrote:

For some reason, I can't get GDM to authenticate using LDAP through PAM... I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but authentication via SSH/terminal login works perfectly fine; GDM is the only one to give me any problems. Anyone have any insight as to why this might be? Included is a copy of my /etc/pam.d/gdm file at the bottom of the email. Thanks in advance. =)


- Edward Howe
- Frontier Science, Inc.

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#%PAM-1.0
auth     sufficient     pam_ldap.so
auth     required       pam_nologin.so
auth     required       pam_env.so
auth     required       pam_unix_auth.so

account  sufficient     pam_ldap.so
account  required       pam_unix_acct.so

password required       pam_ldap.so

session  sufficient     pam_ldap.so
session  required       pam_unix_session.so

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