From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 7:16: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E936537B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA10526; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:15:42 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39CB698E.E8359A9A@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:15:42 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Isaac Waldron Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE not accepting passwords? References: <004701c0249c$11bbeac0$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Isaac, > When my screensaver in KDE 1.1.2 starts up, > I require a password to get back into the system. Unfortunately, KDE > doesn't recognize passwords as being correctly input. That is, even when I > type the right password, KDE still reports failed and kicks me back to a > password prompt repeatedly. > > Has anyone experienced this? Any workarounds/solutions? Well-known bug in KDE 1.1.2 . I don't know for any workaround besides not using the KDE screensaver. BTW, it works, if used as root (but donīt do that of course as default :-) ) I'm just waiting for the release of KDE 2. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message