Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (160 mails)

[Carlos Lorenzo Matés <clmates@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

El Jueves, 9 de Diciembre de 2004 21:24, Rodney Wishart Jr. escribió:
> Several strange problems have recently appeared when booting my SuSE 9.0
> system. The first and most strange is that when typing my password the
> "*******" no longer appear in the password box, it just remains blank and

Look into the Kde Control Centre in Privacy and Security, (password and user 
account)

> the cursor does not move. After pulling my hair out for several hours, I
> realized that if I typed the password in the box anyway and clicked OK
> everything booted as normal. I can live with this quirk (I'm sure its some
> new security feature), but where did It come from and how can I change it
> back so my ******** appear as I type. Additionally, I can no longer shut
> down my system directly from a user logon session. I can only log off and

Look into the Kde control centre, in System Administration -> Access 
Administration (shutdown)

 

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Un Saludo.

Carlos Lorenzo Matés