From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 9:22:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maulwurf.franken.de (maulwurf.franken.de [193.141.110.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CBE37B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by maulwurf.franken.de via rmail with stdio id for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:22:41 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built DST-May-30) Received: (from tanis@localhost) by gaspode.franken.de (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8MEph822584; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:51:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tanis) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:51:43 +0200 From: German Tischler To: Isaac Waldron Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE not accepting passwords? Message-ID: <20000922165143.A22574@gaspode.franken.de> References: <004701c0249c$11bbeac0$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <004701c0249c$11bbeac0$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET>; from iwaldron@WPI.EDU on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:51:10PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:51:10PM +0200, Isaac Waldron wrote: > Again, I can't think of anywhere else to send this where I'll get a faster > response, so sorry for the OT. 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? Try making the screensaver modules setuid root. --gt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message