Re: kdesktop_lock won't authenticate against AD[Scanned]

[Chris Bradford <chrisbradford cambridge-news co uk>]

Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My FC5 / KDE box is part of a Windows 2000 domain. I've configured it to 
> authenticate login credentials against Active Directory and it's working 
> well. However, when I lock the desktop (manually or via password protected 
> screen saver), I can not unlock it if the logged in user is an Active 
> Directory user. 
> kdesktop_lock fails with the following message:
> "Cannot unlock the session because the authentication system feiled to work; 
> you must kill kdesktop_lock (pid_of_process) manually"
>
> A local user can unlock the desktop without problems.
>
> Any idea about what may be causing this?
> Here is may pam configuration for kcheckpass (/etc/pam.d/kcheckpass):
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth       sufficient  pam_timestamp.so
> auth       include     system-auth
> account    required    pam_nologin.so
> account    include     system-auth
> password   include     system-auth
> session    include     system-auth
> session    required    pam_loginuid.so
> session    optional    pam_timestamp.so
> session    optional    pam_selinux.so
> session    optional    pam_console.so
>
> Also, /usr/bin/kcheckpass permisions are set as 4755.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo
>
>   
So the authentication to AD works? Can you post your 
/etc/pam.d/system-auth file as this is called by /etc/pam.d/kcheckpass.

Thanks,

-Chris


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