-> 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.
Where did you get that version of xdm for potato? -> > 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 Oh sorry of course i have that one fiels. I did not paste it, i have that computer at home and I'm writing this mail from work. I copied the line from login (which works as I want) changed login to xdm but that doesn't help. I am not even sure how to detect if xdm calls pam functions. I tried "ltrace -S" for xdm process and logged on. Anyway, output of ltrace didn't show anything about pam and/or opening any pam file... P.S. I am not member of debian-user list, please Cc: to me. -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I don't wish to receive spam to this address. Varovanie: Nezelam si na tuto adresu dostavat akukolvek reklamnu postu. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.