Version: (using Devel) OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources When the screen is locked, attempting to unlock it with the proper password fails, giving an "Unlocking failed" error, or something to that effect. It basically acts like my password is wrong, even though it isn't. My password has a capital letter and numbers in it, if that helps.
is kcheckpass setuid root?
By kcheckpass I assume you mean the three files with that name. I searched for em and yup, they are all owned by root.
foo@bar > cd $prefix/lib/kde4/libexec; ls -l kcheckpass -rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 246059 Aug 21 13:36 kcheckpass ^ *that* assuming it is, check the authpriv.* syslog facility. oh, you could just run kcheckpass on the command line and tell us the result.
It doesnt work for me either. Running the nightly build for kde 4.2 on my Ubuntu 8.10 installation. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13772 2008-12-09 21:35 /opt/kde-nightly/lib/kde4/libexec/kcheckpass running it says authentication failure with my password. my auth.log has the following entry Dec 11 07:51:04 abc-laptop kcheckpass[30474]: Authentication failure for abc (invoked by uid 1000)
I fixed mine by doing sudo chmod u+s /opt/kde-nightly/lib/kde4/libexec/kcheckpass Dont know why it wasnt that way in the first place.
Yeah, running that command fixed it for me, too. Thanks!
please report a packaging bug to ubuntu then.
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