gnome-screensaver will not unlock with correct password while removed setuid bit of /sbin/unix_chkpwd file
Issue
- gnome-screensaver will not unlock with correct password with below error messages:
unix_chkpwd[7449]: check pass; user unknown
unix_chkpwd[7449]: password check failed for user (suser)
gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=500 euid=500 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=suser
gnome-screensaver-dialog: gkr-pam: unlocked 'login' keyring
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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