Re: xscreensaver says missing pam_lastlog.so?

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Solved.

On 6/3/26 16:29, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 6/2/26 11:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Thanks Samuel,
>>
>> On 6/3/26 15:43, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Not mentioned there.
>>
>> However I see it in /etc/pam.d/postlogin, so removing it.
> 
> Looks like it should be lastlog2 now.
> Is that file a symlink?
> Try running "authselect select local".  Add "-f" to the command if it doesn't work the first time.  That will reset the pam settings to the default.
> 

Thanks,

This did the trick (used 'select -f local').

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