Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (179 mails)

[Martin Knoblauch <martin.knoblauch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 19:31, Mathias Homann wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2002 15:53 schrieb Martin Knoblauch:
> >  today I installed the latest online update for SuSE-8.0 and
> >  additionaly upgraded to KDE-3.0.2. Since then the scrensaver locks
> > me out.
>
> had the same problem but ONLY with NIS accounts.
> copied /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver to /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver and now it
> works just fine.
>
>
> bye,
> MH

 OK, after getting serious on this (strace is your friend), it turned 
out that my logins failed because "kcheckpass" couldn't open 
/etc/shadow from non-root accounts.

 The question is now: should the shadow file be world readable, or 
chould kcheckpass be made setuid-root.

Martin
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