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Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 22:34
by dedanna1029
Trying to add a new user to my machine. Used gpasswd to add the user, and the user to the groups, and the system is seeing the new user successfully, but at login the user can't login from slim. Upon checking mail in /var/spool, mail says something to the effect that the user was added but that in /etc/groups, the password was not set with 'x'. Any clue what's up?
Thanks.
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 00:09
by viking60
Hi there!
This seems to be a Slim issue - gimme a minute.....
Slim seems to have some gnome3 issues and is depreceated these days but I still have it working....
I think you need to have a look at
And add these two lines:
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auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_startAnd this to
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password optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 06:47
by dedanna1029
Thanks so much. We'll give 'er a try and post back.
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 07:03
by dedanna1029
Sorry Boss. It no workie.
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 07:16
by dedanna1029
It has just occurred to me that it's probably because I'm still offline and haven't caught the update that fixed the bug maybe? Sorry for flooding. Am on my phone which makes things a bit difficult.
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 10:52
by viking60
If you use a screensaver you have to add this to /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver
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auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.soAnd then you have to change the
login_cmd line in
/etc/slim.conf:
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login_cmd exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session >~/.xsession-errors 2>&1Now it may work depending on how updated your Gnome is.
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 21:01
by dedanna1029
Yeah. Unfortunately not updated enough. It's been since I left NM for school.
Still not working. Am debating on one of two things: Either switch back to gdm or download updates at school and install them manually. Thanks so much for trying, Boss.
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 21:22
by viking60
No problem.
Switching back to gdm makes a lot of sense. Slim upstream is not developing that actively anymore.
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 30 Nov 2011, 06:31
by dedanna1029
Unfortunately is something that will have to wait, too. Have to remember how to do it. No real time until quarter break for Christmas. BTW, the above did do one thing. It took 'Shut down' away from the Gnome menu. lol. Am using the halt command. lol.
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 30 Nov 2011, 06:33
by dedanna1029
away, not amay. lol
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 30 Nov 2011, 12:15
by viking60
dedanna1029 wrote:Unfortunately is something that will have to wait, too. Have to remember how to do it. No real time until quarter break for Christmas. BTW, the above did do one thing. It took 'Shut down' amay from the Gnome menu. lol. Am using the halt command. lol.
Yes there is this Gnome developer that had been smoking his socks, who decided that nobody needs "shut down". You can tweak it back according to this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gn ... tatus_menu(I feel so special because I put it in there
)
Or you could do
thisIt will give you the option of turning on shutdown in the Gnome tweak tool:
Re: Adding new user no workie (Arch)
Posted: 01 Dec 2011, 20:38
by dedanna1029
Thanks. Still seems I need updates to try that. It's been since September.
Good job on that, btw.