Re: x11/xdm with PAM and security/sssd2: not working

Gleb Popov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <CALH631m214BR8oabhsEQR3F7QYkcuOhr7bqzrAoyfAHX+33qGQ@mail.gmail.com> 
On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 1:13 AM A FreeBSD User <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Using pam_sss.so as described initially in /etc/pam.d/xdm:
>
> ohartmann@host [ohartmann]: pamtester xdm ohartmann authenticate
> Password:
> pamtester: successfully authenticated
>
> ohartmann@host [ohartmann]: pamtester xdm ohartmann acct_mgmt
> pamtester: account management done.
>
> ohartmann@host [ohartmann]: pamtester xdm ohartmann open_session
> Can't mkdir /var/run/xdg/pamtester: Session failure

Re-run these checks as root, because this is how xdm runs PAM, if I
understand it correctly.
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