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gcb

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Registered: 2014-02-12

Posts: 130

locked out by KDE while shutdown is scheduled

Sometimes i schedule a shutdown for the future (after a kernel update but i'm still working and I don't want to forget to reboot).

Recently, i've started to be prevent me from *unlocking* the desktop when the shutdown is scheduled <5min remaining. And it's maddening.

The lock screen says pam nologin is to blame. It didn't happen until recently.

the pam files are all from arch stock. I'm suspecting this is a change to better integrate fingerprintd...

I think my options are to cancel out "auth       requisite  pam_nologin.so"  which is in system-login in a custom system-local-login? how Do i even do that?

# system-local-login
#%PAM-1.0

auth      include   system-login
account   include   system-login
password  include   system-login
session   include   system-login

auth       none  pam_nologin.so

? like this?

will i regret it?

gcb

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Registered: 2014-02-12

Posts: 130

Re: locked out by KDE while shutdown is scheduled

realized this is not on upstream kde files. so will open a bug on arch later.

offending line:

# /etc/pam.d/kde-fingerprint
...
auth       requisite                   pam_nologin.so
...

gcb

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Registered: 2014-02-12

Posts: 130

Re: locked out by KDE while shutdown is scheduled

turn out the package just copy what was recommended by upstream, but upstream doesn't actually include the files. So had to open a bug upstream to make better recommendations, which the distros will copy and paste... sigh. PAM is so painful people are afraid to actually own the files and now we play the telephone game