Re: gdm login problem
>
> What happens? Does it just say something to the effect of "login denied"
> or does it start to go and then return to the gdm greeter screen after a
> few seconds?
The screen shakes and I get incorrect username or password.
If gdm is stopped, can the user run startx after logging in
> from the console?
Yes and kde starts.
> If it's gdm denying the login, check gdm's config file for options that
> may exclude certain users or allow only certain users. I haven't used
> gdm in a long while and can't give the exact config directives you're
> looking for.
Nothing I can see to be a problem.
> In all other cases, look at the user's ~/.xsession-errors file. Is the
> user specifying something in ~/.Xsession that isn't working correctly?
> Is that file in any way different from the "successful user"'s file?
Neither user has a .Xsession or .xsession file.
You might also want to have a look at /var/log/XFree86.log and
> /var/log/auth.log to look for error messages relating to your failed
> logins.
/var/log/auth.log
May 2 18:06:09 meridian1 PAM_unix[1331]: authentication failure;
(uid=0) -> pamela for gdm service
May 2 18:06:11 meridian1 gdm[1331]: Couldn't authenticate user
May 2 18:06:14 meridian1 PAM_unix[1331]: bad username []
May 2 18:06:14 meridian1 gdm[1331]: Couldn't authenticate user
May 2 18:06:21 meridian1 PAM_unix[1331]: (gdm) session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
May 2 18:08:01 meridian1 PAM_unix[1421]: (cron) session opened for user
mail by (uid=0)
May 2 18:08:02 meridian1 PAM_unix[1421]: (cron) session closed for user
mail
May 2 18:08:03 meridian1 PAM_unix[1331]: (gdm) session closed for user
root
May 2 18:08:23 meridian1 PAM_unix[1434]: (login) session opened for
user pamela by LOGIN(uid=0)
May 2 18:23:01 meridian1 PAM_unix[1549]: (cron) session opened for user
mail by (uid=0)
May 2 18:23:02 meridian1 PAM_unix[1549]: (cron) session closed for user
mail
May 2 18:26:42 meridian1 PAM_unix[1562]: (ftp) session opened for user
pamela by (uid=0)
May 2 18:27:10 meridian1 PAM_unix[1562]: (ftp) session closed for user
pamela
May 2 18:27:49 meridian1 PAM_unix[1054]: (ssh) session closed for user
root
May 2 18:27:49 meridian1 sshd[1054]: PAM pam_putenv: delete
non-existent entry; MAIL
May 2 18:28:33 meridian1 sshd[1565]: Accepted keyboard-interactive for
pamela from 192.168.0.2 port 34109 ssh2
May 2 18:28:33 meridian1 PAM_unix[1565]: (ssh) session opened for user
pamela by (uid=0)
May 2 18:28:39 meridian1 PAM_unix[1565]: (ssh) session closed for user
pamela
As you can see pamela can login by console, ssh, and ftp, just not from
gdm.
> good times,
> Vineet
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