On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:06:37AM +0100, Giles Constant wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002, Stephan Jaensch wrote: > > > You didn't compile PAM support in. > > aaaaah... that might be it :-) > alternatively you could just make sure kcheckpass has read access to /etc/shadow, that is, make it setuid root or setgid shadow.
> (although hitting the 'administrator mode' in kcontrol doesn't have > the same problem). > kdesu is just a wrapper around the system's su, so it has no permission problem. greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- The problem with making software idiot-proof is that idiots are so clever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]