kdesktop_lock does not accept password -- solved

[Thorsten Küfer]

Thorsten Küfer schrieb:
> I installed Kubuntu 5.10 preview and have updated the system to all current
> packages.
> 
> Since the last update yesterday I cannot login after locking the desktop.
> kdesktop_lock does not accept the password and says:
> 
> Oct 21 12:34:19 KUMMEROG unix_chkpwd[4909]: check pass; user unknown
> Oct 21 12:34:19 KUMMEROG kcheckpass: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname=
> uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=  user=tk23279
> Oct 21 12:34:19 KUMMEROG kcheckpass[4908]: Authentication failure for tk23279
> (invoked by uid 1000)
> 
> What is the the problem here? What has changed?

The problem is solved now. /etc/shadow was not readable by the shadow group.

-rwxr-sr-x  1 root shadow 14988 2005-09-12 20:12 /sbin/unix_chkpwd

before:
-rw-r-----   1 root   root       903 2005-10-20 13:39 /etc/shadow

after:
-rw-r-----   1 root   shadow     903 2005-10-20 13:39 /etc/shadow

-- 
Thorsten