On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:42 -0800, Christian Seberino wrote: > Why Debian has this problem but not Fedora? The permissions > for /var/log/faillog look the same for both. Does Fedora > do some setuid magic or something dangerous to "fix" the xscreensaver? The default is onerr=succeed. And fedora doesn't use pam_tally at all by default. > Chris > > > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:53 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 16:01 -0800, Christian Seberino wrote: > > > How come if I uncomment pam_tally line in common-auth file below (Debian > > > box) I cannot unlock the screensaver with a password anymore? > > Put there onerr=succeed instead of onerr=fail. xscreensaver in debian > > cannot access the /var/log/faillog file and thus the pam_tally module > > fails with error. > > > -- Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list