Re: Odd problem with PAM and KDM

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

David Goodenough wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 March 2004 18:06, Kent West wrote:
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> > David Goodenough wrote:
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> > > On Tuesday 09 March 2004 16:52, Kent West wrote:
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> > > > David Goodenough wrote:
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> > > > > On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:12, Kent West wrote:
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> > > > > > David Goodenough wrote:
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> > > > > > > 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].
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> > > > > > Can you log into KDM? (IOW, does it just affect his account?)
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> > > > > 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.
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> > > > How did you create the accounts? Using "adduser" or some other method?
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> > > adduser
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> > Directory mask on new users?
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> mine is drwr-sr-x
> his is drwr-xr-x
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> which is odd becuause on all the other machines I have mine is drwr-xr-x!
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So what happens if you "chmod g+s" his home directory? (I'm not saying 
this is a good idea, but I'd do it for testing purposes).

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Kent