Can't add new user in lucid

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 26 13:21:50 UTC 2010


On 26 March 2010 13:18, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/2010 06:53 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> I seem to have found a bug in lucid but it is so basic that I hesitate
>> to report it in case I just being stupid.
>>
>> I created a new user using System Administration Users and Groups but
>> am unable to login as that user.  I get an authentication error.  I
>> have tried creating several users and have double checked passwords
>> but to no avail.
>>
>> In auth.log I see
>> piglet gdm-session-worker[2554]: pam_winbind(gdm:auth): request
>> wbcLogonUser failed: WBC_ERR_AUTH_ERROR, PAM error: PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
>> (10), NTSTATUS: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER, Error message was: No such
>> user
>>
>> In addition in what may be a related or separate bug if I try to
>> change the password of the user fred using
>> sudo passwd fred
>> I get
>> passwd: System err
>> and in auth.log
>> Mar 26 12:50:28 piglet sudo:   colinl : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/colinl ;
>> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/passwd fred
>> Mar 26 12:50:28 piglet passwd[2666]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok):
>> valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND
>>
>> I can't find either of these in launchpad.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>
>
>        If you need me to try your bug in my Lucid I will try to do what you
> did.
>

That would be helpful, thanks

Colin




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