Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: KDE 3.5.5 lock issue was (Xorg with lock session issue)

On Monday 08 January 2007 11:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Sunday, 7. January 2007 19:38, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
> > On 1/7/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> > > On 2007-01-07 18:38, Abdullah Al-Marrie <almarrie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I use lock session which comes with KDE 3.5.5 which in the start menu,
> > > > I don't know if this is xlockmore  or not.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I don't use KDE, so I don't really know.  Can you connect
> > > remotely through SSH to the system and try "ps xau" to find out what
> > > programs are running?  This could provide some hint about the locking
> > > program KDE uses.
> >
> > Actually it's KDE issue
> 
> Make sure /usr/local/bin/kcheckpass is suid root.

I have the same issue. kcheckpass is suid root and works:

tijl_at_kalimero ~% kcheckpass; echo $?
Password:
0
tijl_at_kalimero ~%

The error message given when I try to unlock is:

Cannot unlock session because the authentication system failed to work;
you must kill kdesktop_lock (pid xxxx) manually.