From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 10:12:16 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 10:12:14 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875C037B402 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:12:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA04403; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:17:15 +0100 Message-ID: <3A35191C.85D1DE2@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:12:44 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE and KDE References: <20001211201349.A94548@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington schrieb: > > Hi > Please allow mw to ask these 2 questions. The answers might be somewhere but I don't seem to be able to locate them. > > 1. Does everyone else running this version of FreeBSD change the install option to 4.1-STABLE while installing from the ports via > /stsnd/sysinstall the way I have to do it everytime? I also have this problem. It seems to be related to a floppy disk/ftp install. I'll investigate this in more detail later this week. > 2. Does anyone know why whenever I passwd-lock my screen in KDE it cannot allow me to unlock it? I type the same passwd I login with > and it just says 'failed' > I don't seem to see this in their documentation. The screensaver modules (*.kss, AFAIR) need their suid bit set. They are not because this poses a security risk. Search the mail archives for KDE about eight weeks ago, it was discussed in all gory details. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message