Bug 249491

Summary:	can't login to gdm with account made by useradd
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	selinux-policy	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	high
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dcantrell, wwoods
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Description Jens Petersen 2007-07-25 01:56:22 UTC

Description of problem:
With recent rawhide (after 20070720?), I am unable to login from gdm as a user
to start a desktop session.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.19.4-1.fc8

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install fedora development
2. add a user (firstboot currently seems to crash)
3. try to login as user from gdm
  
Actual results:
3. Dialog appears:

Expected results:
login to work

Additional info:
Not sure if this is gdm's fault since it was last updated 10 July,
but I am able to start a desktop session without any problem with startx
from a console.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2007-07-27 00:18:53 UTC

Is this just me?

If not, looks like a f8t1 blocker to me...

Comment 2 Will Woods 2007-07-27 02:43:17 UTC

It works for me if you log in as root and add a user using system-config-users.
Adding a user with 'usermod' does *not* work - is that how you created the
normal user?

What's the difference between 'usermod -m' and account creation with
system-config-users?

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2007-07-27 04:19:19 UTC

Yes, I used adduser, and you're right system-config-users works for me too.

Moving to shadow-utils.

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2007-07-30 05:32:14 UTC

Sorry forgot to include the text from the dialog, but basically it is
to the affect: your home directory /home/user does not appear to exist.

(Normally I would make my account with firstboot but currently firstboot
is not coming up for me...)

Comment 5 Peter Vrabec 2007-07-30 12:29:25 UTC

I can't reproduce this problem and I don't suspect shadow-utils fault here. 
There wasn't many changes in shadow-utils last "days".

What shadow-utils and selinux-policy do you use? Is the anything important in 
logs? Could you provide "strace -f" of useradd.

Comment 6 Jesse Keating 2007-07-30 14:21:00 UTC

I can't replicate it either.  Dropping from F8Test1 tracker.

Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2007-07-31 03:04:39 UTC

Ok, could it be selinux perhaps?

Comment 8 Jens Petersen 2007-07-31 05:23:19 UTC

Indeed this seems to be fixed with the latest selinux-policy which
will be in test3 I think.