Re: [gdm-list] GDM user authentication problem

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Aldo:

To me this looks like an issue with PAM, not GDM.

Brian


> Hi - I'm new to GDM and need some advice.
> I searched the archives and the web but found nothing relevant to mandriva.
>
> I have a user that has problems login into his system.
> The log files show this error:
>
> Jun 26 17:12:39 man190 gdm(pam_unix)[5692]: session closed for user jdoe
> Jun 26 17:12:47 man190 gdm(pam_unix)[5692]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=  user=jdoe
> Jun 26 17:12:51 man190 gdm-binary[5692]: Couldn't authenticate user
> Jun 26 17:12:57 man190 gdm(pam_unix)[5692]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=  user=jdoe
> Jun 26 17:13:01 man190 gdm-binary[5692]: Couldn't authenticate user
> Jun 26 17:13:05 man190 gdm(pam_unix)[5692]: bad username []
>
> Any pointer as to what causes that?
> I'm running Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Official) for x86_64 and
> gdm-2.8.0.4-1.3.20060mdk.
>
> thanks.
> ~af
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