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[Marco Beishuizen]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 02:48 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>>> This is the problem.  Your /etc/passwd entry contains a '&' which makes
>>> for bad XML.  Replace this character with a real name for your user, and
>>> this problem should go away.
>>
>> This doesn't seem to be the problem. I removed the & from /etc/passwd from
>> the regular user and root, and restarted X. The errors are still in the
>> logfile, and only the "logcheck system user" and "other" in GDM.
>
> That is not correct.  /etc/passwd is a convenience file, but no tthe
> real password database.  You need to edit /etc/master.passwd, and change
> the fields there.  This is best done with the vipw command.  Once the
> master.passwd file has been changed, vipw will automatically regenerate
> the binary password databases.

Ok, now the error messages in the logfile are gone, thanks! The only thing 
that is left is that the possible login names to choose from are now 
"User" and "Logcheck system account". "User" is fine of course but why the 
logcheck system account? "Root" seems more logical.

Marco
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