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Re: kde and manual change if uid and gid



Hello

Tadek (<tadek@telus.net>) wrote:

> On the client machine I changed in /etc/passwd (vipw) uid to 501.  I
> changed also gid (using vigr), since 'tad' has group too.  Next I
> chown -R 501:501 /home/tad on the client.  Then I tried to logout and
> login again.  To my horror 'tad' disapper from the list of the user in
> kde loggin.

Probably kdm is set to ignore all users with ids lower than 1000. Edit
your kdmrc and change

MinShowUID=1000

to

MinShowUID=501

and restart kdm.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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