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Re: odd passwd problem.



On Saturday 03 August 2019 05:58:49 Curt wrote:

> On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> >> as well as the contents of
> >>
> >>  /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
>
> What about the log?

Since the logs have been rotated, I find many stanza's of this in the 
lightdm.log.old

[+3030.13s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for  gene
[+3030.13s] DEBUG: Session pid=460: Sending SIGTERM
[+3030.13s] DEBUG: Session pid=490: Started with service 'lightdm', 
username ' gene'
[+3030.13s] DEBUG: Session pid=460: Terminated with signal 15
[+3030.13s] DEBUG: Session: Failed during authentication
[+3030.13s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+3030.16s] DEBUG: Session pid=490: Got 1 message(s) from PAM
[+3030.16s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s)
[+3035.97s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
[+3038.26s] DEBUG: Session pid=490: Authentication complete with return 
value 7: Authentication failure
[+3038.26s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user  gene: Authentication 
failure
[+3038.26s] DEBUG: Session pid=490: Exited with return value 1
[+3038.26s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+3038.27s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for  gene

> What happens exactly?
>
> >> might provide some clue.
Thanks Curt.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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