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Atyafi

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2019-07-09

Posts: 3

Lightdm Authentication faliure

Hello, I'm trying to use lightdm with the lightdm-webkit2-greeter (default Antegros theme for now), but despite always entering the correct password, I constantly get the error: Uh oh! Authentification failed (or something like that).

I put in my password several times, and these are the lines that looped with every password input in:
journalctl:

Jul 08 22:51:43 Fujitsovitsch audit[658]: USER_LOGIN pid=658 uid=0 auid=1000 ses=1 msg='op=login acct="lajos" exe="/usr/bin/lightdm"  hostname=Fujitsovitsch addr=? terminal=/dev/tty7 res=failed'
Jul 08 22:51:43 Fujitsovitsch kernel: audit: type=1112 audit(1562619103.549:34): pid=658 uid=0 auid=1000 ses=1 msg='op=login > acct="lajos" exe="/usr/bin/lightdm" hostname=Fujitsovitsch addr=? terminal=/dev/tty7 res=failed'
Jul 08 22:52:20 Fujitsovitsch lightdm[663]: pam_unix(lightdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=  user=lajos

the debug-journal-thing that can be accessed straight from the desktop manager greeter:

Starting authentication for lajos
Session for lajos is xfce
cache_set() called with key:
ant:user:lajos:session and value: xfce
Cancelled authentication.
cache_get() called with key:
ant:user:lajos:session
cache_get() key: ant:user:lajos:session
value is: xfce
Starting authentication for lajos

I have the accountsservice package, if that is in any way needed.
Thanks for your patience!