Bug#440955: gnome-screensaver: fails with pam_unix2

Marcos Pinto markybob at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 18:12:13 UTC 2007


Package: gnome-screensaver
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

when using pam_unix2 for better security, gnome-screensaver fails
to unlock and always reports an invalid password.  this is because
/etc/shadow is "-rw-r----- 1 root shadow" and gnome-screensaver
is not in the shadow group by default and apparently cant read
the file

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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