On Thursday 03 February 2005 20:53, s s wrote: > > Everything SEEMS to be acting fine now... > > ...But not anymore. If I lock the desktop in KDE, I > cannot unlock it. It doesn't recognize my password. > so... > the permissions for kdesktop_lock still seem to be > broken. I don't know exactly what they should be, > maybe there is a file in /opt/kde/bin that it needs to > Write to? > Does anyone out there know? > I don't know how you got where you are with this (self-installed packages, etc.) but 2 things that I've had to learn the hard way recently are as follows: - $KDEDIR/bin/kcheckpass needs to be owned by root and SUID - /etc/pam.d/kde needs to be correct (like this...) #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required pam_nologin.so auth sufficient pam_timestamp.so account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session optional pam_timestamp.so session optional pam_selinux.so session optional pam_c Hope this helps!! =:) -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------// | Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper :: Numbers 6:22-26 ` | All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker | in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is | the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too. , | bash$ :(){ :|:&};: `----------------------// ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.