> don't worry! I don't even have /etc/pam.d/kde > RE: kcheckpass must be owned by SUID. I don't have a > SUID user. or a SUID group. Did you mean sudo? > I don't think kcheckpass was ever in my sudo list > before. > Here's my permissions on kcheckpass: > ls -l kcheckpass > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10080 2004-12-18 21:42 kcheckpass* You'll need to SETUID root your kcheckpass binary. You can do this by issuing the command (as root) chmod +s /path/to/kcheckpass This lets it have root privilages, else it can't access /etc/shadow to authenticate you :) -- JH KDE frequently asked questions: http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdebase/faq/ panic("esp_handle: current_SC == penguin within interrupt!"); ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.