Re: xscreensaver says missing pam_lastlog.so?

Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/2/26 8:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I notice that whenever I unlock the screen (following a "lock screen") I 
> get this in the system log:
> 
> 2026-06-03T13:18:43+10:00 xscreensaver-auth[615805]: PAM unable to 
> dlopen(/usr/lib64/security/pam_lastlog.so): /usr/lib64/security/ 
> pam_lastlog.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 2026-06-03T13:18:43+10:00 xscreensaver-auth[615805]: PAM adding faulty 
> module: /usr/lib64/security/pam_lastlog.so
> 
> There is no pam_lastlog.so on my system and dnf says no package is 
> providing it.

Look in /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver.  Remove any lines referencing lastlog.

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