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[Bug 1309535] Re: Running without pam-kwallet installed issues a warning in auth.log

 

This is due to us adding pam_kwallet to the configuration so that KDE
could work correctly with LightDM (bug bug 1305307). The warning occurs
in Ubuntu because you don't have pam-kwallet installed and PAM warns if
a module is not found (even if it is marked optional as in this case).
KDE users will have a similar warning about pam_gnome_keyring being
missing.

The only solutions I can think of are:
- Force users to install both libpam-gnome-keyring and pam-kwallet (seems excessive)
- Modify PAM not to report the error (but I don't think PAM can really tell if we expected the module to not exist).
- Use different PAM configuration for kubuntu/ubuntu (but then you can't log into both from the same install).
- ...

Give the warning is harmless I'm not proposing taking any action.

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Running without pam-kwallet installed issues a warning in auth.log

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  After upgrading to lightdm 1.10.0-0ubuntu2 I started to see this error
  in auth.log:

  Apr 10 14:34:54 simon-laptop lightdm: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_kwallet.so): /lib/security/pam_kwallet.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  Apr 10 14:34:54 simon-laptop lightdm: PAM adding faulty module: pam_kwallet.so

  This seems like a regression because with lightdm 1.10.0-0ubuntu1 or
  before I didn't have this error showing. FYI, I don't have the pam-
  kwallet package installed.

  
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  $ apt-cache policy lightdm pam-kwallet
  lightdm:
    Installed: 1.10.0-0ubuntu3
    Candidate: 1.10.0-0ubuntu3
    Version table:
   *** 1.10.0-0ubuntu3 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: lightdm 1.10.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Apr 18 09:12:37 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-26 (81 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140124)
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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