[CentOS] user 'not listed' on login screen

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Tue, June 30, 2015 12:58 pm, g wrote:
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> On 06/30/15 12:22, CS DBA wrote:
>> All;
>>
>> I installed centOS 7 (KDE), I also created a user 'postgres'
>> the postgres user does not show up as a user on the login screen.
>>
>> How can I make this user show up on the login screen? I've googled it
>> with no luck
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> log in a root user, check for /home/missing-user.
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> in /etc files; group, gshadow, passwd, shadow, for 'missing-user'.
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> if missing or present, create user again to see if will correct.
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> if it is a daemon as Mark suggest, remove daemon.

As far as I remember, by default postgres user has rather low UID number.
Users with UID below some number will not be shown on login screen. (500
was this number in the past, 1000 may be on some current Linuxes, 100 was
on some Suns if I remember correctly)

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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