No I think the problem I am having is related to nis. Kde doesnt seem to want to load if the user has never logged into the box before authenticating using nis. >>> Harv Nelson <harv.nelson at gmail.com> 11/8/2005 10:04:33 AM >>> Hi Joe, If you are asking how to get kdm going as a login manager, this is what I did on my Debian "Etch" dpkg-reconfigure kdm This will set kdm as the login/display manager ... rather than gdm or xdm. In KDE, if you want to allow root logins from the kdm login screen you must edit the following: /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc [General] ConfigVersion=2.2 PidFile=/var/run/kdm.pid ServerVTs=-7 Xservers=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers [Shutdown] HaltCmd=/sbin/halt RebootCmd=/sbin/reboot UseLilo=false [X-*-Core] AllowNullPasswd=false AllowRootLogin=true AllowShutdown=Root AutoReLogin=false ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors-%s Reset=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xreset Session=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession SessionsDirs=/etc/X11/sessions,/usr/share/xsessions Setup=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup Startup=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xstartup HTH Harv, Washburn, WI On 11/8/05, Joe Stuart <jstuart at edenpr.k12.mn.us> wrote: > I am running suse 10 with kde for my desktop and using nis for authentication. The problem I'm having is when I login through kdm I get the error could not start kstartupconfig check your installation. The strange thing is that if I login as root then su - user it authenticates me just fine pulls my home directory from the nis server and all is good. The other thing is that if I choose windowmaker or anything but kde I can login fine then after that successfull login I can use kde as my desktop. After searcing the internet the kstartupconfig error seems to mostly come up from problems with the users home directory, but I dont really understand why this works on the commandline and why kde works after one successfull login using another windowmanager. Hope that makes some sense. > > Joe > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >