On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:12, Kent West wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > >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 > > Can you log into KDM? (IOW, does it just affect his account?) Yes, my account behaves perfectly normally, and has done so both before and after his account was created. I think it may be all new accounts that have this problem. I created another account, and that too had the problem.
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