The user accounts (both real user and my test) work other machines in the area. I haven't tried renaming the home directory yet. I'll give that a try. Nathan On 2016-07-07 19:34, Stephen Partington wrote: > Have you tried that user on another system? Or a temp rename of home > to see if there is some config file that is barfing x. > On Jul 7, 2016 4:04 PM, "Nathan-plug" > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am having a problem that is running me around in circles. >> >> I have an open directory server providing authentication for my >> users and use Salt to manage my configurations.  I have a >> workstation that I recently reloaded with Ubuntu 14.04 and >> everything looked great through Salt but I have a problem logging >> into the machine.  This is where it gets weird.  I have 2 sessions >> available, lightdm and xfce.  Lightdm is default and existing users >> cannot log in (it says "failed to start session") however, if I >> change to xfce or log in on a terminal I can log in.  After logging >> in via xfce or terminal, I can then log in as an existing user. >> It is a little more weird when I decided to stop bugging one of my >> users during troubleshooting and created a new test account and was >> able to log in without issue. >> The only thing I can see in my logs are: >> >> auth.log:Jul  7 13:33:09 ops1 lightdm: >> pam_succeed_if(lightdm:auth): requirement "user ingroup >> nopasswdlogin" not met by user "brokenUsername" >> auth.log:Jul  7 13:33:13 ops1 lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm:auth): >> authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=  >> user=brokenUsername >> >> lightdm/lightdm.log:[+79.51s] DEBUG: Session pid=5740: Authenticate >> result for user brokenUsername: Success >> lightdm/lightdm.log:[+79.51s] DEBUG: Session pid=5740: User >> brokenUsername authorized >> >> I though it had something to do with home directory creation but >> like I said, the new test account I created is working fine. >> >> Any thoughts are appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Nathan >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss