On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:39 AM Daniel Santos <dacs....@brilhante.top> wrote:
> Hi. > > After spending almost a whole day trying to figure out, in the Internet > and on the manual pages, why the screen program was not accepting my > password of my user in my GNU system, I found out that screen, when > installing from source code, does not install the /etc/pam.d/screen > file. > > In doing so, every time that a screen user wants to reattach a session, > it receives an 'enter my password' prompt, with no change on unblocking > the password of that prompt (because the screen pam.d file is not > installed). > > Can someone fix this issue and make 'make install' install a > /etc/pam.d/screen file, when PAM is detected on the system? > > Best > > The obvious answer here is that updating /etc/pam.d/screen requires root privileges, which are implied while doing a "yum/apt" install of a binary and not necessarily even available to user building from source.
