[PLUG] KDE Lock Screen Help

[Will Andrews]

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:53:52AM -0500, Benjamin C. McKeown wrote:
> For some reason when I put my the lock screen in KDE under any of my norm=
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> user accounts, the password doesn't work, however for root it does.  If I=
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> move the mouse the prompt comes up, but all that is required to bypass it=
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> simply hitting enter.  This isn't a huge problem for me, but I would like=
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> some small measure of security on my computer when I step away from it wh=
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> I'm logged in.  If anyone has a clue as to what is going on I would=20

The reason it doesn't work is because your KDE screensaver binaries are
not executed setuid root (so they can read the password file).

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