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Date:      Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:38:30 +0100
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        kde@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, Abdullah Al-Marrie <almarrie@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: KDE 3.5.5 lock issue was (Xorg with lock session issue)
Message-ID:  <200701082038.33761.tijl@ulyssis.org>
In-Reply-To: <200701081159.51056.lofi@freebsd.org>
References:  <499c70c0701071038k34d10214ya7a0cd00e6c1f800@mail.gmail.com> <200701081159.51056.lofi@freebsd.org>

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On Monday 08 January 2007 11:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Sunday, 7. January 2007 19:38, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
> > On 1/7/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> > > On 2007-01-07 18:38, Abdullah Al-Marrie <almarrie@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I use lock session which comes with KDE 3.5.5 which in the start menu,
> > > > I don't know if this is xlockmore  or not.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I don't use KDE, so I don't really know.  Can you connect
> > > remotely through SSH to the system and try "ps xau" to find out what
> > > programs are running?  This could provide some hint about the locking
> > > program KDE uses.
> >
> > Actually it's KDE issue
> 
> Make sure /usr/local/bin/kcheckpass is suid root.

I have the same issue. kcheckpass is suid root and works:

tijl@kalimero ~% kcheckpass; echo $?
Password:
0
tijl@kalimero ~%

The error message given when I try to unlock is:

Cannot unlock session because the authentication system failed to work;
you must kill kdesktop_lock (pid xxxx) manually.



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