Bug 441560
| Summary: | Should mark pam files as %config | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | wilburn | ||||
| Component: | gnome-screensaver | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 5.1 | CC: | wilburn | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2014-06-03 12:37:46 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
wilburn
2008-04-08 19:04:48 UTC
Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce this. Can you please provide us with some additional information? First, kill off gnome-screensaver: pkill -f gnome-screensaver Then run with debugging enabled and redirect this to a file: gnome-screensaver --no-daemon --debug > gs.log 2>&1 Then reproduce the problem and attach the gs.log here. Thanks. Created attachment 301714 [details]
Debug output from gnome-screensaver
Looks like you may be using a remote directory service (nis, nis+, ldap, etc), right? I think will occur is you are not connected to the network and are not running nscd. If you ensure that you are connected to the same network as your directory does this still occur? You are on the right path. I use ldap for account information, kerberos for authentication. For reasons that aren't worth explaining, the gnome-screensaver pam file is modified, rather than system-auth. gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-5.el5_1.1 replaced the pam file and gnome-screensaver could not get account information. Two things for you to consider whether this is a bug or not: 1. Packages usually do not replace modified config files, instead create a .rpmnew version. 2. Should gnome-screensaver fail in this way when it can't obtain account information? Seems inelegant. Thanks for the help! Great! So, you are probably right. We should mark the pam file as %config so it isn't replaced. Thanks for testing this. You're also right that we should display a message when this occurs. But that isn't something we could do in that security errata. I've created the following bug for that: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527185 Thanks again. This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug. Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support). The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days |