Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

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On 02/10/18 16:42, François Patte wrote:
> 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?
>
light(dm)   dm=Display Manager

You could try sddm, kdm, or gdm?

-- 
A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out

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