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Bug 61582

Summary: kdesu failes with pam_usb
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Andre Lammel <andre>
Component: [OLD] LibraryAssignee: Andrea Luzzardi <scox>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: critical CC: andre
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: patch/ebuild for pam_usb to work with kdesu

Description Andre Lammel 2004-08-24 18:06:45 UTC
using pam_usb in conjunction with kdesu (e.g. using the controlcenter module
in kde for loginmanager configuration or using k3b
Comment 1 Andre Lammel 2004-08-24 18:06:45 UTC
using pam_usb in conjunction with kdesu (e.g. using the controlcenter module
in kde for loginmanager configuration or using k3b´s k3bsetup as normal user)
failes with following error:

communication with su failed

it turns out that the problem is the password-prompt used by pam_usb which is

Passphrase to unlock the key:

instead of the normal password prompt

Password:

kdesu expects the "standard" password prompt and thus failes. I have made a 
patch and a new ebuild for pam_usb which is attached to this bug for those
who encountered the same problem. Please consider this for inclusion in por-
tage as pam_usb-0.3.1-r1.

greetings

andre lammel
Comment 2 Andre Lammel 2004-08-24 18:14:58 UTC
Created attachment 38131 [details]
patch/ebuild for pam_usb to work with kdesu

patch/ebuild for pam_usb to work with kdesu - pam_usb-0.3.1-r1
Comment 3 Andrea Luzzardi 2004-09-05 17:49:05 UTC
Heya,

I may include this as an option for pam_usb (i'm also pam_usb's author).
Thanks for reporting both the bug and the solution.