Hi Eric, > Precisely; however it is trying to open /etc/shadow *as the logged-in > user*, not root. This is what's throwing the errors in the audit log. it seems that you have to either install xscreensaver as setuid root or use some other pam module that uses a daemon (running as root) to do the lookups. (Sorry, I don't know a module that works like this.) Tobias -- Tobias Schaefer Phone 07071-9457-406 science + computing ag FAX 07071-9457-411 Hagellocher Weg 71-75 D-72070 Tuebingen Email: T.Schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.science-computing.de/ _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list