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jawilson
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 Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject: kuser crashes in kde 3.4 |
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Hello,
I just installed the kdebase-meta and kdeadmin-meta packages, and am running kde 3.4 now on my laptop. Since this is a new install, I want to add some users. However, kuser crashes whenever I try to add a user to any groups. There is no error message or anything. I remember having a similar problem in kde 3.3 with a missing /etc/gshadow file, but this did not solve the problem.
Has anyone else experienced this problem, and more importantly, solved it?
Thanks!
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Cintra
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: kuser crashes in kde 3.4 |
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| jawilson wrote: | Hello,
I just installed the kdebase-meta and kdeadmin-meta packages, and am running kde 3.4 now on my laptop. Since this is a new install, I want to add some users. However, kuser crashes whenever I try to add a user to any groups. There is no error message or anything. I remember having a similar problem in kde 3.3 with a missing /etc/gshadow file, but this did not solve the problem.
Has anyone else experienced this problem, and more importantly, solved it?
Thanks!
Adam |
Yes I had this, but with monolithic, see another thread or two..
After setting up a user with the apps/layout I wanted under KDE 3.4, I tried adding the user to several groups with kuser, and that was the end of that user. Wasted hours trying to sort it out. Next morning I deleted the user, made a new user, but was still unable to log the new user in.
To cut a long story short, I found some incorrect owner/group in /home/'user', and remnants of the deleted user. Cleared that up and was at last able to login and start building up the new user's layout.
To add the user to various groups I kept well clear of kuser & simply edited /etc/group...
Mvh
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jawilson
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Hey,
That's exactly what I ended up doing as well. Using kuser did not wipe out the user though for me. At least editing the groups file is not really difficult.
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Cintra
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Yeah we live and learn 
Who needs all this KDE stuff
mvh
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kayali
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Actually, kuser is so savagely broken in 3.4 that I'm surprised gentoo packagers didn't remove it... Just like the rellink plugin, which made konqi unusable in 3.3.2... Makes you wonder... Do they use KDE themselves??
EDIT: Hell, even ArchLinux did it.... |
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Carlo
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| kayali wrote: | | Actually, kuser is so savagely broken in 3.4 that I'm surprised gentoo packagers didn't remove it... |
Please write bug reports...
| kayali wrote: | | Do they use KDE themselves?? |
Seemingly not KUser. btw.
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MadDogE134
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da6d
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Since the problem only shows up when adding new users, they probably didn't even find it. I mean, who allows any other users on their development machine?
Ive been using 3.4 for about two weeks on my notebook, and just setup a new desktop, fresh install from scratch. I had no idea of the issue on my notebook, because there's no other users. Just can't set up a new install's users.
The fix seems to be:
1. create /etc/gshadow
2. chmod 600 /etc/gshadow
I'm still researching to see if there is anything else needed for security sake. |
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