On Tuesday 10 February 2004 8:04 am, Robert Cabane wrote:
Selon Timur
:
I'm one of those who had only the xdm file. Following your suggestion I did:
(echo "auth sufficient pam_permit.so"; cat xdm) > kde-np
But unluckly it didn't work: after the reboot I still had the authentication failed message.
I did so with the same conclusion. Later I wrote the added line at the very beginning of the "xdm" config file. Suddenly it became possible for ALL users to login without password ... even root. I quickly disabled !
I just tried that myself, and root still needed a password. You may have done something slightly different than what I did -- perhaps modifying the xdm file rather than creating the xdm-np file. As I said to Selon, though, I'm no expert on this stuff. All I did was to take material from a bug report and reformulate it as an easy-to-follow recipe (which Selon didn't precisely follow). Paul Abrahams