Re: Can't login

It's a user identifier. You have a username, but Linux works with
UIDs. /etc/passwd is a way to map usernames to UIDs so you don't need
to care what your UID is.

Try this. You're at a terminal to use elinks, so exit elinks and give
this command, entering your password when prompted:
sudo chown -R <username>:<username> /home/<username>

Replace <username> with your username, then see if you can log in normally.

On 7/17/07, Matthew Voss <matthew.lns1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks, but what is a uid?
Goo

On 7/17/07, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 08:45 -0700, Matthew Voss wrote:
I can't login using the gui. Right now I am very glad for elinks
termial web browser. The error message is something like this: GDM did
not write your authorizaition file. I any event you can not log in.
Please contact your sever administrator.

Sounds like a permissions problem with your home directory or you do not
have a home directory for the login account. Check the home directory
entry in /etc/passwd and be sure it is owned by the correct uid and
allows that uid to create files in the directory.

The authorization file is called .Xauthority and lives in your home
directory. You might check its permissions as well.
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