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Change PAM authentication module path

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elenapan 2020-04-18 06:23:01 +03:00
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@ -130,10 +130,10 @@ Here are the instructions you should follow to replicate my AwesomeWM setup.
Instead of authenticating with a custom password stored in plain text inside your configuration files, it is possible to use [PAM](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PAM) in order to do it using your regular user password in a secure way. [lua-pam](https://github.com/RMTT/lua-pam) allows us to use PAM from within AwesomeWM.
You will need to install the `pam` package through your distribution's package manager and then follow the [instructions to build lua-pam](https://github.com/RMTT/lua-pam).
After building it, you can simply copy the resulting `liblua_pam.so` file to the lock screen configuration directory, like so:
After building it, you can simply copy the resulting `liblua_pam.so` file to your configuration directory, like so:
```shell
cp liblua_pam.so ~/.config/awesome/elemental/lock_screen/
cp liblua_pam.so ~/.config/awesome/
```
If you do not want to install it, no worries!

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config/awesome/elemental/lock_screen/init.lua
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@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ local helpers = require("helpers")
local lock_screen = {}
-- local lua_pam_path = os.getenv("HOME").."/.config/awesome/elemental/lock_screen/liblua_pam.so"
local lua_pam_path = helpers.this_dir().."liblua_pam.so"
local lua_pam_path = os.getenv("HOME").."/.config/awesome/liblua_pam.so"
lock_screen.init = function ()
-- Initialize authentication method based on whether lua-pam has been