Re: Login name in Sid
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Kent West wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>> On Thu,16.Oct.08, 13:57:41, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>> Lately I've noticed that when I logout, the system says I am logged in
>>>> as "comment", not my login name. I get into Gnome via GDM, and it
>>>> doesn't seem to matter whether I type in name and password..or let it
>>>> automatically log me in. If I drop into a terminal whoami says I am my
>>>> user name.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas where to start looking.
>>> Can you reproduce the exact message mentioning user "comment"?
>>> Regards,
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Here's the full screenshot:
>>
>> http://imagebin.ca/view/bE6JKe.html
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>
> I would try dropping to a Terminal window and running "whoami".
See my original post
>
> I would look in /etc/password to see if "comment" shows up in that file.
Nothing there
>
> I'm suspecting this is specific to Gnome, in which case it may be just a
> field number mis-match in Gnome's reading of the /etc/password file, or
> something similar.
>
Cheers
Frank
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