Re: Odd problem with PAM and KDM
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:12, Kent West wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> >I have a laptop which has been running Debian for around 2 years now, with
> >a user ID for me which works just fine. I can log on to a line mode
> > console or use KDM to log on to KDE - no problems. The machine is
> > running Sid, and is pretty well up to date.
> >
> >Recently I added a user ID for my son so that he could use this machine
> >for some school work. He claims he did nothing out of the ordinary, but
> >after a history lesson he stopped being able to log into KDE.
> >
> >When I got a look at the machine there were no obvious errors, and he
> >could still log on to a command line console and issue startx to get into
> >KDE, but just could not get into KDE from KDM.
> >
> >KDM reports immediately that there is a logon failure, and there is a
> >log message in /var/log/syskog which reads:-
> >
> >kdm(pam_unix)[843]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0
> > tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user=michael
> >
> >It then says, just as it would for a normal login:-
> >
> >logon(pam_unix)[686]: session opened for user michael by LOGIN(uid=0)
> >
> >and that it all.
> >
> >Anyone got any ideas as to why this might be or how to debug it?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >David
>
> Can you log into KDM? (IOW, does it just affect his account?)
Yes, my account behaves perfectly normally, and has done so both before
and after his account was created. I think it may be all new accounts
that have this problem. I created another account, and that too had
the problem.
David
>
> --
> Kent
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