GDM and PAM on Fedora Core 1?

[David Gillies]

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.
>
> - - - - - - - - - snip - - - - - - - - -
>
> #%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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