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Date:      Sun, 10 May 2009 22:00:55 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GDM users list
Message-ID:  <1242007255.88553.42.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905110243150.27248@yokozuna.lan>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905110207070.25029@yokozuna.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905110218480.25029@yokozuna.lan> <1242001810.88553.40.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905110243150.27248@yokozuna.lan>

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On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 02:48 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>=20
> > This is the problem.  Your /etc/passwd entry contains a '&' which makes
> > for bad XML.  Replace this character with a real name for your user, an=
d
> > this problem should go away.
>=20
> This doesn't seem to be the problem. I removed the & from /etc/passwd fro=
m=20
> the regular user and root, and restarted X. The errors are still in the=20
> logfile, and only the "logcheck system user" and "other" in GDM.

That is not correct.  /etc/passwd is a convenience file, but no tthe
real password database.  You need to edit /etc/master.passwd, and change
the fields there.  This is best done with the vipw command.  Once the
master.passwd file has been changed, vipw will automatically regenerate
the binary password databases.

Joe

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