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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:51:43 +0200
From:      German Tischler <tanis@gaspode.franken.de>
To:        Isaac Waldron <iwaldron@WPI.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE not accepting passwords?
Message-ID:  <20000922165143.A22574@gaspode.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <004701c0249c$11bbeac0$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET>; from iwaldron@WPI.EDU on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:51:10PM %2B0200
References:  <004701c0249c$11bbeac0$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET>

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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


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