Bug#606493: gnome-screensaver: Fails to authenticate users with NIS on amd64

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 606493 nis
thanks

Le jeudi 09 décembre 2010 à 20:07 +0100, Dietrich Clauss a écrit :
> After upgrading my machine to amd64, users can no longer unlock the
> screen locked by gnome-screensaver.  The dialog always says 'wrong
> password'.  The system uses NIS, the NIS server is an i386 lenny
> machine.
> 
> The following services also fail:
> 	kscreenlocker
> 	xlock (xlockmore-gl)

I suspect this is caused by the need for these to access the pam_unix
service as non-root.

I have no idea why this would work on i386 and not on amd64, though.

Cheers,
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