Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

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Le 10/02/2018 à 09:32, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> On 02/10/18 16:12, François Patte wrote:
>> Le 09/02/2018 à 18:46, Rick Stevens a écrit :
>>> On 02/09/2018 08:05 AM, François Patte wrote:
>>>> Le 09/02/2018 à 15:33, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>>>>> On 02/09/18 22:13, François Patte wrote:
>>>>>> Seems to be an empirical way to solve the problem! Nobody knows what is
>>>>>> responsible for such a message (Authenticate result for user cath  :
>>>>>> User not known to the underlying authentication module)? What is this
>>>>>> module and how to inform it that a new user was added?
>>>>> Well, since I am the only one who has responded to your query and since I only know
>>>>> what I have found by using google, I guess nobody knows for sure what is causing the
>>>>> problem.
>>>> Trying your trick gives the same result: once the password has been
>>>> given, lightdm behaves like if it was a wrong password and user can't log!
>>>>
>>>>> At this point are you more interested in getting that user logged in under lightdm or
>>>>> finding out why they have been unable to?
>>>> I am interested in both, it is quite boring that something has been done
>>>> somewhere and messages in log files are not enough explicit to solve the
>>>> problem.... This tends to make the system more secretive.
>>>>
>>>> I googled too, and find some answer related to pam, to ldap.... Nothing
>>>> about lightdm!
>>> Please check the system logs. It may be an issue with libcrypt (e.g. the
>>> version desired isn't there). I've had that issue with a laptop before
>>> where the PAM system wanted libcrypto.so.6 (which was what was
>>> originally installed way back when) but the current version was
>>> libcrypto.so.10.
>> In that case wouldn't be impossible to login for all users?
>>
>>
> Would you consider to try another DM?

DM?


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