Re: Strange problems... users booted.

Both ways, Diego.

Any Ideas?


On Friday 21 November 2003 12:18 pm, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
> 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
> >
> >On Friday 21 November 2003 09:01 am, Tim Bates wrote:
> >>>I can't have contaminated uid's floating around... sometime in the
> >>> future
> >>
> >>they
> >>
> >>>may get used, and cause all kinds of touble that would be a b*tch to
> >>>trouble-shoot.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>>Any other Ideas?
> >>
> >>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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