Allow users to use graphical login

[Lonni J Friedman]

Assuming you mean logging in with GDM (and not running 'startx'), I
too have never run into this problem, and I've setup literally
thousands of RHEL5.  Either you've got some non-standard custom setup
there, or this is a Centos5 bug.

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:47 PM, vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/12/2012 1:15 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> How does one allow non-root users to use the graphical login on CentOS 5
>> and the default gnome desktop?
>>
>> The error message says that the user isn't in the list of allowed users,
>> but I haven't figured out where this list is (someplace under /etc/X.*
>> probably), and I don't find an admin tool to add it.
>>
>> It's been many years since I had to look at this stuff when setting up X
>> terminals and such.
>>
>
> I do not have this problem with RHEL5, which should equivalent to CentOS
> 5. Maybe it is the bug is listed in this link, which describes the
> problem as some broken PAM configuration files :
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743260



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