Cannot login from Thin Client (excepting first user created during install) - Was TFTP error

[Paul J. Thompson]

Hi Gavin,

See below, it would appear to be failing to authenticate at some point. I
have to admit that I am quite lost here.

Regards,

Paul

On 2/6/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   1. After attempting login in as user <somebody>, have a look at
>    /home/<somebody>/.xsession-errors to see if their xsession launched but
>    died for some reason.  Is anything being printed to that file -- when
> is
>    it's datestamp?


No /home/jiao/.xsession-errors file present although pjt (the successful
login) has one. However its errors are just related to an application that
is no present

2. Check /var/log/auth.log on the server to verify that the user is indeed
>    being authenticated correctly, eg you should see lines like:
>
> Feb  5 22:05:00 robin sshd[5394]: Accepted publickey for gavin from
> 192.168.1.13 port 46418 ssh2
> Feb  5 22:05:00 robin sshd[5396]: (pam_unix) session opened for user gavin
> by (uid=0)