Re: lightdm authentication failure for one user

[François Patte]

Le 08/02/2018 à 22:45, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>  On 02/08/18 23:53, François Patte wrote:
> > Le 08/02/2018 à 14:39, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> >> On 02/08/18 20:21, François Patte wrote:
> >>> I have problem with lightdm greeter: one user cannnot log-in: I have
> >>> this message in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log:
> >>>
> >>> Authenticate result for user cath  : User not known to the underlying
> >>> authentication module
> >>>
> >>> What does it mean and how to recover?
> >>
> >> First thing to check.  Does user cath have an entry in the /etc/shadow file?
> > Certainly! She can login through ssh.
>  
>  But is the user logging it via ssh using keys or a password? 
password

>  
>  Have you, as root, tried resetting the password? 
Yes I did

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