Can't add new user in lucid
Colin Law
clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 26 14:42:52 UTC 2010
On 26 March 2010 13:55, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> 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
>
> Are you authenticaticating through winbind? (== are you authenticating
> through an AD server?)
Not that I am aware of, it is a standard desktop install of lucid beta
1 with updates.
Colin
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