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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:44:08 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GDM Weirdness
Message-ID:  <1080193447.87777.26.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <40622200.4030403@cs.uiowa.edu>
References:  <40622200.4030403@cs.uiowa.edu>

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On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:04, Jason Dusek wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I have an interesting problem - I rebooted the machine after rebuilding=20
> GNOME, and when I logged in through gdm I got the 'your session is not=20
> installed on this machine' error.  However, you guys have already=20
> answered that question:
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> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2003-November/004020.htm=
l
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> So I did what it said there and then I found that users in wheel could=20
> login, no problem - but users in other groups had all kinds of=20
> problems.  So I destroyed all my low level users.  And then I put them=20
> back in.  And now some of them work, and some of them don't.  Is there=20
> some kind of 'rebuild user database' command that I should be running?

If they can login from a vty, then they should be able to login from
gdm.  The only database tool for user accounts is pwd_mkdb, but that
usually gets run automatically after a user is added.

Joe

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