howdy: Can not unlock in kde 5.25.0

cat /etc/pam.d/kde

#%PAM-1.0

auth            sufficient      pam_python.so /lib/security/howdy/pam.py

auth            include         system-login

account         include         system-login

password        include         system-login

session         include         system-login

Linux distribution: archlinux

Howdy version: Howdy 2.6.1

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
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Comments: 16 (5 by maintainers)

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Fixed in KDE 5.25.2, just got released today(arch) Note that for better experience you should use howdy pam module after pam_unix in /etc/pam.d/kde like this:

auth       sufficient                  pam_unix.so          try_first_pass likeauth nullok
auth       sufficient                  pam_python.so /lib/security/howdy/pam.py

If you try to run howdy pam before password auth for some reason klocker would execute it 3 times in a row and hangs if failed even once. But I guess it’s a different bug.

yurusov on Jun 28, 2022

Seems already reported, I’ve found this https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455608

MurzNN on Jun 20, 2022

@yurusov Thanks for the example! So if I put this into /etc/pam.d/kde - it should act only on klocker, without changing behavior of sudo and other commands, that now passes by howdy without waiting for entered password?

But I guess it’s a different bug.

So maybe submit it as a separate bug to KDE, for giving a chance to fix it?

MurzNN on Jun 29, 2022