Actually, Kees is right, this a kdm issue.
I checked kdebase-3.2.1/kdm/backend/client.c and, at line 1142, there
are two function calls whose return value is not used :
pam_set_item (pamh, PAM_CONV, &pconv); /* XXX this can fail */
pam_open_session (pamh, 0); /* XXX this can fail, to
Dominique Devriese wrote:
Chris Cheney writes:
I wonder how DEV_RANDOM is getting set to /dev/random, the Imakefile
doesn't mention /dev/random at all. A grep of kdebase for
/dev/random turns up nothing for me, but it must be getting set
somehow. :<
Yes, well, what I've noticed yesterday, is
The problem is that kdm_config blocks when reading /dev/random.
AFAIK, the kernel entropy pool is fed with random events coming from
disk seeks, keyboard input and mouse motions. When the entropy pool is
empty, read accesses to /dev/random will block. Therefore, on a diskless
workstation, kdm_
Hi,
This bug is discussed here :
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68331
Following the instructions, I edited /etc/pam.d/kdm-np and replaced its
first line :
@include common-auth
with :
auth required pam_permit.so
There may be a cleaner way to change this, I'm not a pam expert.
Xavier
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