[OpenAFS] PAM and tokens on login

[Ramanan Sankaran]

Thanks a lot for your input. 
Someone else told me that the change has to be made in "gdm" and not
"xdm". This is a RH7.1 system.
After i added the "auth sufficient" to /etc/pam.d/gdm it works fine.

--Ramanan.


Martin Schulz wrote:
> 
> In my way of thinking, obtaining the afs tokens belongs to the session
> management, not the authentication, therefore try to add something
> along the lines of
> 
> session     optional      /lib/security/pam_afs.so
> 
> Not sure though, why the telnet thingy works nevertheless..
> Another option would be to add the "token" option to the auth line.
> 
> Redhat provides an authconfig program that modifies the system-auth
> file according your input. That's what these pam_stack-modules are
> for: to include those configurations.
> 
> For more information about pam, please see
> 
> http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~schulz/Unix/afs/afs-krb5.html
> 
> BTW, is there any volunteer to take that site over?
> 
> Yours,
> --
> Martin Schulz                             schulz@iwrmm.math.uni-karlsruhe.de
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