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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:15:42 +0200
From:      Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
To:        Isaac Waldron <iwaldron@WPI.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE not accepting passwords?
Message-ID:  <39CB698E.E8359A9A@gmx.de>
References:  <004701c0249c$11bbeac0$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET>

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Hello Isaac,

> When my screensaver in KDE 1.1.2 starts up,
> I require a password to get back into the system.  Unfortunately, KDE
> doesn't recognize passwords as being correctly input.  That is, even when I
> type the right password, KDE still reports failed and kicks me back to a
> password prompt repeatedly.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this?  Any workarounds/solutions?

Well-known bug in KDE 1.1.2 . I don't know for any workaround besides not using
the KDE screensaver. BTW, it works, if used as root (but donīt do that of course
as default :-) )
I'm just waiting for the release of KDE 2.

Ciao
Siegbert


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