Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote


>> Maybe it's due to some pam stuff. I remember some permissions were set
>> when you log in via kdm in 9.2, but I'm not sure what happens exactly.
>> I will let you know if I find out more.
> 
> Probably it's related to pam_resmgr, which is used by the display managers but 
> not on console login (for safety reasons, since if there is a problem with 
> resmgr, you could be locked out even as root)

That's what I thought first, but /etc/pam.d/login also contains

session  required       pam_resmgr.so

so that cannot be the reason. Maybe it's one of the scripts in /etc/X11/xdm
that set some permissions somewhere. I will try to check those.

cu,
Frank

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