From kde-solaris Thu Jul 13 09:16:53 2006 From: Christopher Dietz Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:16:53 +0000 To: kde-solaris Subject: Re: [kde-solaris] KDE 3.5.3 build for Solaris 10 Message-Id: <200607131116.55372.bbcore () gmx ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-solaris&m=115278248517068 Hi, > Under all these KDEs, I have problems when locking the screen with the > KDE screensavers. When trying to unlock the screen, I simply get the > following error message: > > "Cannot unlock the session because the authentication system failed > to work; you must kill kdesktop_lock (pid ....) manually." Do you run kcheckpass as normal user? You usually have to set the suid bit to get this working. Btw you can check the authentification system more simply by running kcheckpass; echo $? instead of locking the desktop :-) Regards Chris ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-solaris mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-solaris. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.