Don't accept password KALI 2.0

[c20xh2]

When i3lock is use with root account on KALI 2.0 you are not able to unlock with your password.

[stapelberg]

This is likely not an i3lock issue. i3lock just uses PAM.

Can you clarify what you mean by “When i3lock is used with the root account”? How exactly do you start i3lock? Which password do you expect to be used for unlocking?

[c20xh2]

I'm sorry if this don't make sense, i'm far from being an expert

When i use i3lock with a regular user account (lauching it simply by writing i3lock in terminal) i dont have any issue.

If i do the same with the root account it doesn't accept root or user password to unlock.

[stapelberg]

How did you switch from the user account to the root account? When you enter su - as user, will it ask you for the root password and give you a root shell when you enter it?

[JamesHagerman]

I just had a similar issue. After using sudo su to get to a root shell, I typed i3lock just to see what it looked like.

None of my passwords worked to get me back in. I had to ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a prompt to killall i3lock.

[stapelberg]

If you use “sudo su”, are you sure that the root account actually has a password set? Again, when you enter su -, will that ask you for a password, and will it make you root once you enter it? Are you entering the same password to unlock i3lock?

[c20xh2]

Yes i'm 100% positive about the password

2015-10-30 3:24 GMT-04:00 Michael Stapelberg notifications@github.com:

If you use “sudo su”, are you sure that the root account actually has a
password set? Again, when you enter su -, will that ask you for a
password, and will it make you root once you enter it? Are you entering the
same password to unlock i3lock?

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[stapelberg]

What about the rest of my questions?

[JamesHagerman]

For me, the root account has a password set on it. When I enter su -, I am asked for a password, and it makes me root once I enter it.

After doing su -, if I start i3lock, the password for the root user is not working.

Honestly, NONE of the passwords set on the machine (either for root or for the user I su'd from) are working from an instance of i3lock started from the command line as root.

[stapelberg]

Does any other screen locker work? i3lock just uses PAM, so I’m wondering why it would be different from any other application.

[mh21]

I'm wondering whether this is because of the used PAM policy. i3lock.pam includes 'login', which might be different from the 'su' policy. In ubuntu, /etc/pam.d/su has an 'auth sufficient pam_rootok.so' line that seems to be related.

[c20xh2]

2015-11-04 11:26 GMT-05:00 c20xh2 c20xh2 c20xh2@gmail.com:

Yes i'm 100% positive about the password

2015-10-30 3:24 GMT-04:00 Michael Stapelberg notifications@github.com:

If you use “sudo su”, are you sure that the root account actually has a
password set? Again, when you enter su -, will that ask you for a
password, and will it make you root once you enter it? Are you entering the
same password to unlock i3lock?

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#43 (comment).

[stapelberg]

kali has the following line in its /etc/pam.d/login:

auth [success=ok new_authtok_reqd=ok ignore=ignore user_unknown=bad default=die] pam_securetty.so

Since i3lock is not a terminal, this check is what prevents the login. Let me see whether there’s anything we can do about it or whether this is working as intended.

[JZL]

I am running i3 on Ubuntu. I compiled and installed from the git source directly and the problem still persisted (pm-suspend works but sudo pm-suspend does not (I have to sudo kill the process to get back in)).
Is there anything I can do?

I can open a new error request, if you'd prefer

[stapelberg]

@JZL Please open a new ticket.