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bistrototal

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-05-25

Posts: 59

XDM wont let me in - bad username

I just installed xdm on my computer. I changed to runlevel 5 in inittab and xdm starts fine. But when i try to log in, i'm thrown out again immediately. I found this in a log:

Apr 18 17:33:10 COMPUTER xdm(pam_unix)[4692]: session opened for user h by (uid=0)
Apr 18 17:33:10 COMPUTER xdm(pam_unix)[4692]: session closed for user h
Apr 18 17:50:04 COMPUTER xdm(pam_unix)[4723]: session opened for user h by (uid=0)
Apr 18 17:50:04 COMPUTER xdm(pam_unix)[4723]: session closed for user h
Apr 18 17:32:22 COMPUTER xdm(pam_unix)[4692]: bad username [

sl

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From: uk

Registered: 2007-04-04

Posts: 42

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Re: XDM wont let me in - bad username

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what's the user name, and are you sure it has no non-alphanumeric characters in there (whne you type it) ?

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i don't think there should be an issue of the name beign too short, but u never know.

Last edited by sl (2007-04-18 16:08:59)

bistrototal

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-05-25

Posts: 59

Re: XDM wont let me in - bad username

i tried with a longer username and still the same problem

bistrototal

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2005-05-25

Posts: 59

Re: XDM wont let me in - bad username

I installed gdm instead. Worked fine.