[Mageia-dev] ANN: For the brave. systemd v185 in cauldron updates_testing

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 22/06/12 15:17 did gyre and gimble:
> On 22 June 2012 14:58, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>> Anything special in your gdm pam configs? Or even in the system-auth pam
>>>> file?
>>> Yes, I'm using pam_mount to automatically mount my encrypted home
>>> directory. But given that it is handled in system-auth, and that other
>>> kind of login works, I'm sceptic.
>>
>> Well I'm somewhat sceptical too, but I'd still like to work out why it
>> fails for you.
>>
>> I would imagine it works for TV tho' I don't know for certain if the two
>> machines he referred to run a DE or not.
> 
> One does, one doesn't.
> On the one that does, btw, one must provide the root password in order
> to mount a USB key if "su - foobar" is run in a terminal...

Does the one running a DM let you login OK via gdm?

So USB keys mount OK after a fresh boot, but as soon as you do "su -
foobar" mounting is broken? Or have I misunderstood the problem?

Cheers

Col






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