To anybody who can help me troubleshoot why I can't login with KDM: Here is an strace debug log (warning: large file if not on broadband): http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/kdm-trinity.log.gz Slackware uses shadow passwords and does not include or support PAM. Therefore I built kdebase with the following: -DWITH_SHADOW=ON -DWITH_PAM=OFF Thanks! Darrell