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

Tue Jan 31 08:53:14 UTC 2006

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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Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>