Hi Rodrigo, *, Am 10.09.2013 22:39 schrieb Rodrigo Rivas: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier < > damokles4-listen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [..] >> After setting up a new user I cannot login to it's account on the virtual >> console. >> I get: >> Login incorrect >> No matter whether password is set or not >> # passwd -S <user>: >> <user> P ... # password set >> <user> NP ... # password not set >> login as root works with and without password set (both times unset by >> deleting >> the /etc/shadow passwd entry). >> this also occured on another box currently installed - latter one a x86_64 >> user was added through >> # useradd -m -g <group> <user> >> password was set through >> # passwd user >> changing user from root via sudo or su works, as does login via xdm. >> login via lxdm and gdm doesn't, if that is of any help. >> If I do the same on my box writing this mail from (x86_64 - all updates >> included) everything works as expected. >> Couldn't find anything at the bugtracker. >> Before digging deeper my question: >> Any known issues or ideas on that? > This looks to me like a problem with PAM. happily this wasn't the reason :o)). > It is difficult to guess more without more information. You can try: > "journalctl -b | grep pam" and post the output. There were some: login[346]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM tty1 FOR <user>, Authentication failure entries which don't enlighten too much. > Other than that, you can try reinstalling all the PAM related packages, > just in case there is some file missing. From my machine: > $ pacman -Qoq /etc/security /etc/pam.d | sort > cronie > cups > gcr > gdm > gnome-screensaver > jack > libpwquality > openssh > pam > pambase > polkit > postgresql > screen > shadow > sudo > util-linux thanks for this hint. Tagged this mail as "tip" :o)) Friedrich
