Matus, thanks! I was looking for exactly the same thing, but failed to understand pam correctly!
I'm running pam 0.72-9, xdm 4.1.0-9 and login 19990827-20 on Potato, as a reference. On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I use potato and try to set up xdm with pam, for being able to add secondary > groups to users logging in console viia xdm. > > however, using /etc/pam.d/xdm from unstable and configuring group.conf > didn't help; > > I added this line to /etc/pam.d/xdm: > > auth optional pam_group.so I did this too > > and this line to /etc/security/group.conf: > > xdm ; * ; Al0000-2400 ; floppy,audio,shutdown > By my understanding of the group.conf file, you're missing a field. I now have the following two lines, and it works. login ; * ; * ; Al0000-2400 ; floppy,audio,cdrom xdm ; * ; * ; Al0000-2400 ; floppy,audio,cdrom > I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Cool line btw. .../Nemo
