Re: passwd file problems

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

Thanks for all the replies. The answer below was the most helpfull. Doing what
was suggested solved the problem.




On 23-Oct-00 Jan Carlson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:48:14PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> Recently someone asked about changing the uid for a user in the passwd file
>> so
>> it matched that on another machine. That was preventing him form logging on.
>> I
>> admit I thought the person was confused. Well I have been taught my lesson.
>> 
>> I am running RH 6.1 and RH 7.0 on the same machine but in different
>> partitions.
>> On the 6.1 system I was uid 100 on the 7.0 system I had been defaulted to
>> 500.
>> 
>> Ok I thought that is simple while in the 7.0 systemI changed the uid in the
>> passwd file did a chown on
>> the home directory. I even in the end remembered to change the ownership of
>> the
>> orbit-akonstam file.
>> 
>> When you do that (that is make any change in the passwd entries) you can log
>> in
>> as that user but when you try to change any characteristic of sawfish the
>> system says sayfish is not running. In .xsession-errors you get output like
>> below:
>> 
>> SESSION_MANAGER=local/Moof:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1152
>> Xlib:  extension "XINERAMA" missing on display ":0.0".
>> Owner of /tmp/.sawmill-akonstam is not the current user
>> subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>> 
>> Somewhere in the gnome system the information from the passwd entries are
>> retained. The ownership of the .sawmill-akonstam is the problem.
>> 
>> 1. Where is this information data-based (to invent a word)?
>> 
>> 2. How do we fix this?
>> 
>> 3. If it isn't sawfish (which the Gnome-Control window says is the current
>> window manager) what window manager am I running?
> 
> Yep, had that problem here too.
> 
> Remove the .??* directories from /tmp when X and xfs are not running.
> Also remove the X-related .??* dirs from the users home dir.
> They will be regenerated cleanly, although the user will need to
> set his configurations again, but what the heck, a clean start.
> 
> -- 
> Jan Carlson  janc@iname.com  Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
> 
> 
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Aaron Konstam         
Computer Science
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