On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:53:14PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows > XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife > as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't > work. I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home > directory. I can log her in as an su user with no problem. When I > re-boot the system and the splash screen comes up (KDE4), I can > enter her name and password but the system rejects the pass word. > I've checked everything about 3 times and can find nothing wrong. I > would guess that I have missed some niggally detail. The Windows XP > side works fine. Any ideas?
Check the uid of your wife's new account (type "id alice" - to use a common pseudonym - in a terminal). If the uid is less than 1000 or greater than 29999, KDM may be rejecting the account because it's deemed to be a "system" account. You could also try switching to a virtual terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+F1 at the KDM login) and login as her there. Perhaps you'll get an error from PAM (the authentication system) which KDM wasn't passing on.
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