Hello, I believe I have found a bug in KDE which has minor security implications. Twice now I have found that my local customisations of KDM have disappeared, and this is very irritating. The default KDM settings are not appropriate for terminals in public areas because: (a) a complete list of valid users is displayed (b) the banner includes the word "Welcome", and I have often been advised that you should not welcome users until after they have passed authentication (whether this advice is good is beside the point!). I believe that the settings revert when I install other software; perhaps when SuSEconfig runs. The sequence of events was : (1) start kcontrol, then become root and customise the login process (2) success, login now OK. (2) I noted that my customisation had changed /opt/kde2/share/config/kdmrc so I copied this to a new file /etc/opt/kde2/share/config/kdmrc in the hope of making the change permanent (3) I installed other software (galeon and netscape6). (4) Customisations have been lost, and /opt/kde2/share/config/kdmrc has reverted to default (5) I copied /etc/opt/kde2/share/config/kdmrc to /opt/kde2/share/config/kdmrc and things are OK again (until next time). I may be doing some things wrong, because I can't find any documentation about customising KDE other than the painstakingly slow GUI method. /etc/kderc contains dir_config=/etc/opt/kde2/share/config:/opt/kde2/share/config though my experience suggests this has no effect. I am running kdebase-2.1.1-89 on SuSE 7.2 Bob ============================================================== Bob Vickers R.Vickers@cs.rhul.ac.uk Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London WWW: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv Phone: +44 1784 443691