Re: Strange problems... users booted.

Does the problem appears only when the users login through thin clients 
or with fat as well ?

Chris Ditri wrote:

>Thanks again for the input.
>
>I am using X4, and haven't had any problems with KDE yet.
>
>If I were to guess, I would have thought it would have been a cookie... but 
>that is supposed to be stored in .xauthority... and I have definitely wiped 
>them out.  I wiped everything out that the user owned on the system... no 
>dice.  Whatever it is keeping "track" of that uid is not owned by the user.
>
>When I googled, all I could see that was similar were issues with people who 
>did no properly use their xhost -- but xhost works on a per machine basis.... 
>not per user.
>
>Nothing different about those users.  They worked one day, and not the next...
>
>Somewhere on the system that uid is "blacklisted"... I just don't know where X 
>keeps track of that stuff if it is not in Xauthority...  The other 
>possibility is a pam issue.... but I don't think it is as likely... and I 
>still don't have a clue on how to procede even if it was...
>
>thanks again.
>
>
>Chris
>
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>On Friday 21 November 2003 09:01 am, Tim Bates wrote:
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>>>I can't have contaminated uid's floating around... sometime in the future
>>>      
>>>
>>they
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>>    
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>>>may get used, and cause all kinds of touble that would be a b*tch to
>>>trouble-shoot.
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>>Yeah, good point. Though using the normal tools people use, you'd be OK for
>>quite some time since new users are normally added as 1 higher than the
>>current highest uid.
>>But you are right about it being a pain to trouble shoot and it's probably
>>best to find a real solution.
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>>>Any other Ideas?
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>>I just googled, and it seems to be a common problem but there were no
>>obvious answers to what causes it. I would guess its a problem with X since
>>people reported the same error using XDM and GDM aswell. I would suggest a
>>different version of X on the server, or maybe a different version of KDM.
>>
>>One thing I did find was a mention that KDE 3 wont work properly on X3.
>>That could be your problem if that's what you're running, but that's fairly
>>unlikely I would think.
>>
>>Is there anything different about the 2 accounts that are screwy? Like
>>different group, or strange UID?
>>
>>
>>Tim
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