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#1 2019-02-27 20:02:33

brasas
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Registered: 2010-05-28
Posts: 25

[SOLVED] Unable to Login from KScreenLocker

Hello, Last December after an update, I was unable to login in from kscrenlocker. To clarify, when first booting up and initial login, all goes great and I get to the desktop. However, If I step away and the screen locks, I am greeted with:

unlocking failed

To get past this, I change tty, login is as root, and run:

# loginctl unlock-sessions

Which unlocks and allows acces to the desktop. I researched and saw a fix that involved changing  /etc/pam.d/system-login

auth       required   pam_tally2.so

back to

auth       required   pam_tally.so

However, the most recent pacman -Syu has made this not work anymore.

Journalctl shows:

kcheckpass[11629]: pam_shells(kde:auth): Error opening /etc/shells: Permission denied

Any thoughts on what the correct permission are and where to change them?

Thanks!

Last edited by brasas (2019-02-27 20:23:31)


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#2 2019-02-27 20:22:49

brasas
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Registered: 2010-05-28
Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Login from KScreenLocker

So, simple fix... I compared the permissions for /etc/shells on my computer (600) to my wifes computer (644) and noticed they were different. I chmod'd my /etc/shells same as hers and problem seems to have been fixed.


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