help! pam.d and pam_tally setting mess up xscreensaver login!!!!

Fri Feb 3 01:42:52 UTC 2006

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?

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.
> 

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