Re: Odd problem with PAM and KDM
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 16:52, Kent West wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> >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 [but can
> >>> log into a console].
> >>
> >>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.
>
> How did you create the accounts? Using "adduser" or some other method?
adduser
>
> --
> Kent
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