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Re: kcheckpass fails to authenticate



Hello alltogether!

Am Freitag,  9. März 2001 18:02 schrieb Stephen Uhlhorn:

> This morning I upgraded the kde packages that were available for potato.
> After I locked my screen in KDE, I was unable to unlock it (log back in). I
> then killed the x-server and tried to log back in thru kdm...no dice. KDM
> would not let any users log in...even root. There were no problems loggin
> in to a normal shell however. I found this in /var/log/auth.log:
>
> Mar  9 10:30:19 cartman kcheckpass[499]: authentication failure for user
> uhlhorn [uid 1000]
> Anyone know what happened?

It is the same problem here. It works well when the password does not contain 
any umlauts (ä,ö,ü,ß,é,è,ç etc.).

Perhaps this helps to debug.

Bye!

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             ,_, 
Tschö,      (o,o)
 Kolja      {`"'}
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