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

Thorsten Kukuk <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:48:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pam
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 02, [email protected] wrote:

> > PAM needs root access rights.
> 
> Could you be more specific?
> Do linux-pam headers have to be owned by root? Do you mean something else?

Please think about this yourself: Why should devel header files
need to be owned by root?

As I wrote: PAM needs root access rights, but if you run it
as normal user, it does not have them.

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