A lot of fun with pam-modules' pam_unix2, C++ strictness and NumLock in X.org
I again had fun (a lot of fun, in fact!) with
pam_unix2 module, with the changes
between previous version we used and the current one. Using 'x' in the password field of all users
with UID 0 was the culprit. New version also doesn't call additional modules
(
call_modules) if the UID of the user is 0. It has its logic in general, but
unfortunately it is not the case for us ;-) But at the end: it works now again. Good.
As a bonus I debugged one gcc-3.x/gcc4.x C++ template issue with protected member functions. Quite
easy this time :-)
And at the end, some fun with NumLock in X.org and switching between text mode and X (already
reported in X.org Bugzilla). My son
would
be confused!