Re: KDE3 lock screen, 'incorrect password' (my ****)

2002-05-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
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. > > ah... that might be it :-) > alternatively you could just make sure kcheckpass has read access to /etc/shadow, that is, make it setuid ro

Re: KDE3 lock screen, 'incorrect password' (my ****)

2002-05-03 Thread Giles Constant
That worked.. ta :-) On Fri, 3 May 2002, I wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002, Stephan Jaensch wrote: > > > You didn't compile PAM support in. Make sure you have libpam0g-dev installed > > and reconfigure kdebase. Make sure that it found PAM support, make, make > > install and be happy. :-) > > ah.

Re: KDE3 lock screen, 'incorrect password' (my ****)

2002-05-03 Thread Giles Constant
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Stephan Jaensch wrote: > You didn't compile PAM support in. Make sure you have libpam0g-dev installed > and reconfigure kdebase. Make sure that it found PAM support, make, make > install and be happy. :-) ah... that might be it :-) (although hitting the 'administrator mo

Re: KDE3 lock screen, 'incorrect password' (my ****)

2002-05-02 Thread Stephan Jaensch
On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:00, Giles Constant wrote: > Ok, so in the past, the kde screen lock used to take at least two attempts > to log in (even though I can be 99% sure I typed it correct the first > time), but now it NEVER lets me log back in, even if I type my password > with one finger, very

Re: KDE3 lock screen, 'incorrect password' (my ****)

2002-05-02 Thread Justin R. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Said Giles Constant on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:00:34PM +0100: > Anyone else seeing this? I had that problem once, but it's because I used an absurdly long password and the dialog couldn't fit it. The password change app also wouldn't work. - --

Re: KDE3 lock screen, 'incorrect password' (my ****)

2002-05-02 Thread Matias Hermanrud Fjeld
On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:06, I wrote: > On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:00, Giles Constant wrote: > > Ok, so in the past, the kde screen lock used to take at least two > > attempts to log in (even though I can be 99% sure I typed it correct the > > first time), but now it NEVER lets me log back in, ev

Re: KDE3 lock screen, 'incorrect password' (my ****)

2002-05-02 Thread Matias Hermanrud Fjeld
On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:00, Giles Constant wrote: > Ok, so in the past, the kde screen lock used to take at least two attempts > to log in (even though I can be 99% sure I typed it correct the first > time), but now it NEVER lets me log back in, even if I type my password > with one finger, very

KDE3 lock screen, 'incorrect password' (my ****)

2002-05-02 Thread Giles Constant
Ok, so in the past, the kde screen lock used to take at least two attempts to log in (even though I can be 99% sure I typed it correct the first time), but now it NEVER lets me log back in, even if I type my password with one finger, very slowly, with the caps lock off, etc.. Have to switch to a t