I have a laptop which has been running Debian for around 2 years now, with a user ID for me which works just fine. I can log on to a line mode console or use KDM to log on to KDE - no problems. The machine is running Sid, and is pretty well up to date.
Recently I added a user ID for my son so that he could use this machine for some school work. He claims he did nothing out of the ordinary, but after a history lesson he stopped being able to log into KDE. When I got a look at the machine there were no obvious errors, and he could still log on to a command line console and issue startx to get into KDE, but just could not get into KDE from KDM. KDM reports immediately that there is a logon failure, and there is a log message in /var/log/syskog which reads:- kdm(pam_unix)[843]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user=michael It then says, just as it would for a normal login:- logon(pam_unix)[686]: session opened for user michael by LOGIN(uid=0) and that it all. Anyone got any ideas as to why this might be or how to debug it? Thanks David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
