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Bug#1080376: lightdm: Can’t log in with another user



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On Wed, 2024-09-04 at 11:44 +0200, nicolas wrote:
> On 04/09/2024 11:25:39, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 
> I don’t have /var/log/syslog nor /var/log/auth.log my machine is rather
> young, I haven’t reinstalled everything).
> In /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log:
> 
> [+332255.25s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication
> [+332255.25s] DEBUG: Session pid=631863: Started with service 'lightdm',
> usernam
> e '(null)'

That looks spurious indeed (unless 'user2' login is actually '(null)')

> 
> > Just to be sure what works and doesnt work here:
> 
> - login with 'user1' from lightdm
> […]

So everything above *does* work?

> - *changing* from `user1` to `user2` from xfce [can you provide the exact
> procedure you do here?]
> Yep, and user3 instead of user2 also fails.
> I click on the top right button in xfce4-panel, the one with user1’s name on
> it.
> Then I choose the Change user menu entry, enter user2 (or user3) and his
> password in the login window, click on OK and boom.

So it's not the *login* (from a 'clean' lightdm with noone logged in) but
really the *change user* feature?


Regards,
- -- 
Yves-Alexis
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