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Howdy doesn't work. FIXED? #734

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pavelkq opened this issue Dec 6, 2022 · 2 comments
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Howdy doesn't work. FIXED? #734

pavelkq opened this issue Dec 6, 2022 · 2 comments
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@pavelkq
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pavelkq commented Dec 6, 2022

After installation I'd configured and added profile. Test had passed well. But login, sudo and screensaver hadn't worked at all.
I'd caught the problem by command
sudo cat /var/log/auth.log
A message had been displayed about the absence of ConfigParser. But when I'd tried to install, I'd gotten a message that the package had been already installed. Then I found that in the new version of python (3), this package is called lowercase. I've corrected lines 10 and 13 in the /lib/security/howdy/pam.py file, replacing the letters with lowercase ones. After that everything work great.

I've searched for similar issues already, and my issue has not been reported yet.

Linux distribution (if applicable): Debian 11 (sid)

Howdy version (sudo howdy version): 2.6.1
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rnagabhyrava commented Dec 13, 2022 •
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Thanks! This worked for me on Debian Testing. For anyone wondering what exactly to change. Here ya go!

import ConfigParser to import configparser

and

config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() to config = configparser.ConfigParser()

in /lib/security/howdy/pam.py

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pavelkq commented Dec 16, 2022 •
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It's a pity, but after these steps I've faced with a problem unlocking cinnamone-screensaver. I can't unlock it with howdy (it tries, but coudn't) or password.
I think it needs to find another way to use howdy with Python3.

@pavelkq pavelkq changed the title Howdy doesn't work. FIXED Howdy doesn't work. FIXED? Dec 16, 2022
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