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Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop



On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:53:14PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2  60 GB hard drives, one with Windows
> XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife
> as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't
> work. I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home
> directory. I can log her in as an su user with no problem. When I
> re-boot the system and the splash screen comes up (KDE4), I can
> enter her name and password but the system rejects the pass word.
> I've checked everything about 3 times and can find nothing wrong. I
> would guess that I have missed some niggally detail. The Windows XP
> side works fine. Any ideas?

Check the uid of your wife's new account (type "id alice" - to use a
common pseudonym - in a terminal). If the uid is less than 1000 or
greater than 29999, KDM may be rejecting the account because it's deemed
to be a "system" account.

You could also try switching to a virtual terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+F1 at
the KDM login) and login as her there. Perhaps you'll get an error from
PAM (the authentication system) which KDM wasn't passing on.

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