The automatic login feature in KDM 3.2.0_beta1 doesn't work, so after an IRC-session on #kde-devel I created a bug on bugs.kde.org (http://bugs.kde.org/ show_bug.cgi?id=68331) with the following content; "I have set KDE to login automatically (Login Manager/Convenience), but when I startup I get the following notification; "authenticating <username>, authentication failed". After clicking the ok-button I see the normal loginwindow. I had no problems with this feature in KDE 3.1.*. I have talked on #kde-devel about this and a developer suggested to create a bugreport for this problem. I have installed KDE as root and configured automatic login as root. If more information and/or testing is required please let me know." Oswald Buddenhagen (ossi@kde.org) suggested that this might be a Gentoo related problem; "i think gentoo missed the fact that a second pam service (kde-np by default) is now needed for autologin. the normal installation process handles this. alternatively, kde-np exists, but plainly does not work. if so, please mail me /etc/ pam.d/kde-np. read the auth.*/authpriv.* and daemon.* syslog facilities' output." The needed second pam service (/etc/pam.d/kde-np) is indeed not available in Gentoo. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I've added this second service now to the ebuild. As a test, you can copy this kde-np file to your /etc/pam.d directory to verify if it fixes this problem or not (will save you from having to re-emerge the entire ebuild).
Hi Caleb, I have tried the second pam service and it works perfect. Thanks a lot!
