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v_andal
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 Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 10:27 am Post subject: PAM authentication in SLIM |
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There's one interesting "feature" in Slim with PAM authentication. If configuration for slim says
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default_user user
focus_password yes
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then first login shall fail. If I remove the "focus_password" line, so that I have to acknowledge the user name by hitting Enter,
then login works. The most interesting here is the fact that when doing preview of the theme with "slim -p" everything works correctly.
Looks like the problem is with call to pam_set_item. It should set the user name for authentication. Indeed, after call to this function the
pam_authenticate does not want to obtain the user name, only password. Nevertheless, at testing time it works with supplied user name, at
real login time it reports that
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[slim] pam_tally2(slim:auth): pam_get_uid; no such user
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I'm no good at PAM. Maybe someone has an idea, why at login time the pam_set_item(PAM_USER) fails to provide user name for authentication? |
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Da Fox
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There is actually a bug-report for this issue, please take a look at bug #252280
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