Regarding PAM authentication failure

[Michael Chang]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Nisha P Kurur wrote:

|> Hi
|> We have a diskless client that access a dhcpd server.
|> Please note that the server runs FEDORA CORE 2.
|> We are able to startx as root. But when we startx
|> as user the following error occurs
|> 
|> Fatal server error:
|> PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.
|>          Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
|> 
|> init:  Interrupted system call (errno 4):  unable to connect to X server
|> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  unexpected signal 2.

You don't happen to have SELinux enabled, do you?
That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think
about Fedora Core 2/3 installations and X server
permissions problems.

Michael

|> _______________________________________________
|> Pam-list mailing list
|> Pam-list at redhat.com
|> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list