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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:05:22 +0200
From:      Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems with the screenlock in KDE for FreeBSD 4.0
Message-ID:  <394EA732.544B999F@gmx.de>
References:  <200006191715.e5JHFxn20907@ptavv.es.net>

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Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> This may turn into something involving encryption algorithms, but sine
> I upgraded my laptop to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable, I can't unlock my KDE
> screen. With either my password or the root password, I always get
> "Failed".

I noticed the same failure, but if you log into kde as root, it will
work. Maybe there are insufficient rights, to enter /etc/passwd ? Anyone
has an idea how kde tries to get the correct password? Maybe this part
of the program should be setuid ?

Ciao
Siegbert


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