Re: I'm missing from kdm portraits at startup
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 1:13 pm, Karsten Heymann wrote:
> * Dougie Nisbet <dougie@tbird2.homelan> [020109 14:06]:
> > I did 'usermod -u 501' dougie to change my UID from 1000. When I
> > logged out and in again, I'm no longer a picture on the kdm login
> > screen. root is there, and all the other users, but I'm missing. I
> > can't figure out where kde stores this list. I can still log in no
> > problem, but I'm a bit puzzled about why the icon has dissapeared.
> > Where has it gone?
>
> In /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc (/etc/X11/kdm/kdmrc on older versions) there is a
> MinShowUID=xxx line. On default it is set to 1000 i think. Lower it to
> 500 if your users ids start at 500.
>
> Yours,
>
> Karsten
Thanks - now sorted. I thought it would be something like this, but, since
root was displayed, I decided I must be wrong. It hadn't occurred to me that
root might be an exception.
Dougie
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