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Bug 119658 - Can only login as root
Summary: Can only login as root
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 119597
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-01 05:44 UTC by Timothy J. Smith
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:02:19 UTC
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Description Timothy J. Smith 2004-04-01 05:44:01 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312

Description of problem:
Only root can login with gdm.  Other users get a message that the
/home/username directory does not exist, do they want to login to the
root "/"

logging in from the console and "startx" does work for the same user

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC2 test2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot system
2.attempt login any user other than root from gdm
3.
    

Actual Results:  return to gdm

Expected Results:  login to desktop

Additional info:

FC2 test2 useless if only root can login from gdm
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-04-01 06:06:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119597 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:02:19 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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