Re: Linux-PAM 1.1.8: failed to start pam transaction: 26

Thorsten Kukuk <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Oct 2013 07:49:56 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pam
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Oct 01, [email protected] wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> When I run weston-launch (wayland 1.2.1 and weston 1.2.2) as a normal user, member of the
> weston-launch group, I obtain the following error message with linux-pam 1.1.8:
> 
>     failed to start pam transaction: 26: Critical error - immediate abort
> 
> I have installed linux-pam as a non-root user, my OS allows this.
> 
> Do you know where the error comes from?
> What may I do to help find the origin of the problem?

PAM needs root access rights.

  Thorsten

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