Once upon a time, xscreensaver could not write to the faillog for security reasons (a user's xscreensaver is owned by the user). AFAIK, this problem was never resolved. I get around it by copying the /etc/pam.d/system-auth text into the /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver (substitute your screensaver module here), but I remove the pam_tally lines. Not as secure as I'd like, but itâs the best I can do. HTH, Bill Tangren -----Original Message----- From: pam-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pam-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan White Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:28 PM To: pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: pam tally and faillog questions REFERENCE: <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg02907.html> I am still seeing this misbehavior in RHEL 5 I found a Bugzilla reference <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166682> but could not determine if it had actually been fixed. Any clues for this clueless one ? âSometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.â Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
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