From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 16: 5:38 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 9D5B337B7CC for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) 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 BAA10369 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:05:23 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <394EA732.544B999F@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:05:22 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Problems with the screenlock in KDE for FreeBSD 4.0 References: <200006191715.e5JHFxn20907@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Oberman wrote: > > This may turn into something involving encryption algorithms, but sine > I upgraded my laptop to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable, I can't unlock my KDE > screen. With either my password or the root password, I always get > "Failed". I noticed the same failure, but if you log into kde as root, it will work. Maybe there are insufficient rights, to enter /etc/passwd ? Anyone has an idea how kde tries to get the correct password? Maybe this part of the program should be setuid ? Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message