Hi there,
I just installed gdm on a machine that I recently upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 by following Chapter 24 of the FreeBSD Handbook.
To the best of my knowledge, when gdm is installed it creates both a group and a user called gdm. I can confirm that this user exists in /etc/groups /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd however it cannot be 'fingered' whereas the avahi, haldaemon, pulse and polkit users can.
When I attempt to start the dbus service it complains that there is no gdm user.
So as I said I can't 'finger' the user so I decided something wasn't right and that I would remove the user and re-add it. Unfortunately the following happened:
I can happily remove and add back the gdm group using pw but not the user. I have tried uninstalling the gdm port, then trying to remove the user but I get the same message about the user not existing.
I don't understand how a user can exist and not exist at the same time. I know Halloween is coming up soon but I could do without a ghoulish gdm user! �e
If anyone could help me to exorcise this user and solve my problem I would be very grateful.
SanPollo
I just installed gdm on a machine that I recently upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 by following Chapter 24 of the FreeBSD Handbook.
To the best of my knowledge, when gdm is installed it creates both a group and a user called gdm. I can confirm that this user exists in /etc/groups /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd however it cannot be 'fingered' whereas the avahi, haldaemon, pulse and polkit users can.
When I attempt to start the dbus service it complains that there is no gdm user.
Code:
root@smudge:~ # service dbus start
Starting dbus.
Unknown username "gdm" in message bus configuration file
root@smudge:~ #
Code:
root@smudge:~ # pw userdel gdm
pw: no such user 'gdm'
root@smudge:~ # pw useradd gdm -u 92 -g 92 -d /nonexistent -s /sbin/nologin -c "GNOME Display Manager"
pw: user 'gdm' already exists
root@smudge:~ #
I don't understand how a user can exist and not exist at the same time. I know Halloween is coming up soon but I could do without a ghoulish gdm user! �e
If anyone could help me to exorcise this user and solve my problem I would be very grateful.
SanPollo