I haven't been following this closely, so i apologize if this was
already covered.  Did you build the new version of kdm from source, or
was it a precompiled binary?  I'm wondering if you built if from source,
you didn't include PAM support, or something like that?

--- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Previously, BadMan chose to write:
> > This is what I receive in tail -f /var/log/secure from the kde2 kdm:
> > Dec 23 17:29:03 linuxbox PAM-warn[2726]: service: kde [on terminal:
> :0]
> > Dec 23 17:29:03 linuxbox PAM-warn[2726]: user: (uid=0) -> bill
> [remote:
> > ?nobody@?nowhere] Dec 23 17:30:05 linuxbox PAM-warn[2726]: service:
> kde [on
> > terminal: :0] Dec 23 17:30:05 linuxbox PAM-warn[2726]: user: (uid=0)
> ->
> > root [remote: ?nobody@?nowhere]
> >
> > I can find no other items with errors from attempted logins...  I
> have been
> > doing all this without reboots(and hope to continue so)
> >
> > Any other Ideas where I should look for possible problems...?
> 
> Can you return things to the way they were and start over? 
> 
> Can you log in as root and edit the login manager from within KDE? I
> can't 
> remember if KDE 2.1.1 on eD2.4 let you configure that or not. If you
> can, 
> remove all users then add them back again. 
> 
> Of course, if you can't login using kdm, I guess that'll be tough. I
> never 
> tried to remove KDE1 from eD2.4, so I can't offer too much help on
> this.  I 
> assume you've read everything on the SxS site regarding the removal of
> KDE1.
> 
> Have you looked at your kdmrc file  in /opt/kde2/share/config/?



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