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  1. Bug #299717
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 299717

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NYR101 (nyr101-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I had this issue and can confirm it was resolved by:

chown root:shadow /sbin/unix_chkpwd
chmod 2755 /sbin/unix_chkpwd
chown root:shadow /etc/shadow
sudo chmod g+r /etc/shadow

Ubuntu version: 13.10
gnome-screensaver version: 3.6.1

Not sure if it makes a difference, but my /home/ is encrypted.