[K12OSN] compound names stopping gnome logins
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Fri Feb 9 14:01:16 UTC 2007
Unless things have changed (and they may have), having a space in a user ID was never
allowed in Unix/Linux. Stay away from other punctuation characters, too, if you want to
avoid problems.
Petre
john wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have one that I hope you can help me with. While most of our students
> have sane user names in the lastname_firstname format, some of our
> student users have compound user names like:
>
> user van_user . It just so happens that this user is having trouble
> logging in to the Gnome desktop.
> These compound names don't seem to cause problems if students log in via
> the command line. When the student trys to login in via GDM they get the
> following message:
>
> "Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following problem:
> Could not resolve the address "xml.readwrite:/home/Students/user
> van_user/.gconf" in the configuration file /etc/gconf/2/path": Couldn't
> resolve address for configuration source: Bad address
> `xml:readwrite:/home/Students/user van_user/.gconf': ` ' is an invalid
> character in a configuration storage address"
>
> Is the problem the compound name? Where did that final ' come from on
> xml:readwrite:/home/Students/user van_user/.gconf' ?
>
> I hope someone here can point me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
>
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