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

Christophe Jarry <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Oct 2013 05:02:22 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.pam
Message-ID	<20131004050222.4741a3b4@gNewSense3>

> As I wrote: PAM needs root access rights, but if you run it
> as normal user, it does not have them.
> 
If I run weston-launch as root, I have the same error although weston-launch is
setuid root. So I changed the owner of linux-pam executables:

    chown root /sbin/{pam*,unix*,mkhomedir_helper}

Because I would like to run weston-launch as non-root, I also did:

    chmod +s /sbin/{pam*,unix*,mkhomedir_helper}

Running weston-launch either as root or non-root still fails with the error
message I already reported.

Did I miss something?

Christophe