Lock Session - Unlocking failed?

[Fenyx]

I just discovered this by accident (I wasn't really trying to lock my session). I accidentally pushed the shortcut keys for locking a session and everything went black. Then when asked for the password to unlock it, I entered my user's password but it was rejected.

Is there any other password that is needed? Or is there a configuration for this? Because I don't remember setting a different password for unlocking locked sessions.

[sky]

Re: Lock Session - Unlocking failed?

Hi,

I think this is a bug, because you should be able to unlock it with your user's password...

[flare1028us]

Re: Lock Session - Unlocking failed?

I read somewhere on these forums that this is a permissions bug and can be fixed by a chmod command. Just search through these forums and you'll find it.

Carlton

[Fenyx]

Re: Lock Session - Unlocking failed?

flare1028us: thanks for pointing me in the right direction! (somehow I kept on entering search keywords that didn't work )
I did the chmod thing

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/kcheckpass

It's working now. From what I've read it's been a bug since KDE 3.4.3 (at least one instance) or KDE 3.5. Wonder why it hasn't been fixed in the latest patch.

Oh well, everything works now.