Re: possibly messed-up permissions from GLOcean

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> 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 :)

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