agent event not working in pamusb-conf

[Balpreet-afk]

I have Sandisk USB and I got an issue :- I tried configuring /etc/security/pam_usb.conf block to following :-

<user id="balpreet">
	<device>SANDISK</device>
		<agent event="lock">

        		<cmd>cinnamon-screensaver-command -l</cmd>	        		 	

    		</agent>

    		<!-- Resume operations when the usb device is plugged back and authenticated -->

    		<agent event="unlock">      		

        		<cmd>cinnamon-screensaver-command --deactivate</cmd>        		

    		</agent>
</user>

The authentication works perfect but when i plug out the usb, it doesnot locks it and neither unlocks when i plug in it

Second. When I execute pamusb-check --debug balpreet I get this :-

* Authentication request for user "balpreet" (pamusb-check)
[src/local.c:227] Checking whether the caller (pamusb-check) is local or not...
[src/local.c:238] 	Checking pid   7977 (pamusb-check)...
[src/local.c:238] 	Checking pid   7947 (bash)...
[src/local.c:238] 	Checking pid   7922 (/usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server)...
[src/local.c:238] 	Checking pid   1231 (/lib/systemd/systemd)...
[src/local.c:238] 	Checking pid      1 (/sbin/init)...
[src/local.c:296] 	Using DISPLAY :0 for utmp search
[src/local.c:050] 	No utmp entry found for tty ":0"
[src/local.c:312] 	Trying to get tty from display server
[src/local.c:121] 	Determining tty by display server failed (running 'pamusb-check' as user?)
[src/local.c:322] 		Failed, no result while trying to get TTY from display server
[src/local.c:327] 	Trying to get tty by DISPLAY
[src/local.c:335] 		Failed, no result while searching utmp for display :0 owned by user balpreet
[src/local.c:344] 	Trying to get tty by loginctl
sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
[src/local.c:214] 		'loginctl' returned nothing.'
[src/local.c:355] 		Failed, no result while searching utmp for tty (null)
[src/local.c:367] 	Fallback: Using TTY /dev/pts/0 from ttyname() for search
[src/local.c:050] 	No utmp entry found for tty "pts/0"
[src/local.c:378] Couldn't confirm login tty to be neither local or remote - denying.
* Access denied.

[mcdope]

There is a reason there is an support template for new issues. Can't help like that.

Missing:

• Output of w
• Output of loginctl
• Distribution
• displaymanager or shell login and manual x
• installed from package or source
• agent log

edit: also you shouldnt open issues for this in unrelated projects (talking about https://github.com/aluzzardi/pam_usb/issues/51 here)

[Balpreet-afk]

idk w but i typed w in console and got this :-

 15:17:07 up  3:00,  1 user,  load average: 1.42, 0.57, 0.47
USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
balpreet tty7     :0               12:19    3:00m  8:48   2.28s cinnamon-sessio

loginctl :-

SESSION  UID USER     SEAT  TTY
     c2 1000 balpreet seat0 

1 sessions listed.

Also please tell what else you want and how to get it so that i can get helped. Thx for replying

[Balpreet-afk]

I am really sorry about posting in somewhere else. I searched pamusb and accidently got that. Then i opened /etc/security/pam_usb.conf and found at that the one I am using is mcdope. Sorry for that. BTW how you know about it??

[mcdope]

"BTW how you know about it??" You're not the only one opening issues in the original repo, so I started to monitor the RSS Feed for Aluz original project and Google Alerts etc pp :laughing: In fact, I often opened MRs for my own repo in his instead too haha. Everyone messes that up at least once so dont worry ^^

Which distribution are you using? So i can create a VM to repro... I guess I need to add cinnamon to the "tty by display server" checks.

btw, could be worth to try the nightly build - there are some small fixes contained that aren't in the last official release. But they should be unrelated to your issue.

[mcdope]

Closed because lack of feedback. In case you still encounter this with the current nightly build please open a new issue with all required informations.