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Authentication Failed

Asked by vga on 2008-03-22

I've a problem when i'm going to login.

Appears a message "Authentication Failed" (Falló la autentificación) where I only accept the message and I can't write nothing in the users text box. In the text box I can read " ... " but it's impossible to change the user.

One solution?

P.D.: If a start with autologin with my default user, I don't have problems, the problem is when I would like change user.

Thanks!

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vga
Solved:
2008-03-24
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2008-03-24
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2008-03-22
Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : #1

Hello vga..

try reinstalling the pam library packages:

sudo apt-get udpate
sudo aptitude reinstall libpam0g libpam-modules libpam-runtime

you could also try 'aptitude purge' the above packages then 'aptitude install' them again.

Have a try and keep us informed...

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

vga (bokeronvga) said : #2

Thanks for your answer, I reinstalled the libraries and comment de last line of gdm include common-pamkeyring for not autologin in keyring

gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm

#%PAM-1.0
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_env.so readenv=1
auth required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
@include common-auth
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
@include common-account
session required pam_limits.so
@include common-session
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
@include common-password
#include common-pamkeyring

Thanks!