On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Alan lameventanas@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I can't get kdm to authenticate my user.

I built kdebase from revision 1236975, and I configured it as follows:

mkdir build; cd build cmake .. \                -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \                -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \                -DBUILD_ALL=On \                -DBUILD_DOC=Off \                -DWITH_SHADOW=On

Yet I am unable to authenticate my user.  This system doesn't have pam. This used to work with kde 3.5.10 when I ran configure with --with-shadow.

Suggestions?

I have fixed this issue and would like to share the solution so that it can be integrated in the next version of kde3 / trinity.

See the attached patch against 3.5.13, its not perfect but its certainly better than what we have now.

Alan