I have seen similar issues when user shell profiles like .bash_profile or .bashrc has some errors. Are users invoking other shells from their default shell ? this usually breaks X11 start-up scripts. Regards, Prasad On 1 June 2018 at 01:04, isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sounds like an authorization issue. Have you checked both > > /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure? If you're using /etc/password, are > > its permissions and ownership correct? Are the user's home directories > > owned by them? > > Nothing relevant in these log files. The test user is in NIS and home > directory is auto-mounted. All of this works, user can login through text > console and ssh. selinux is disabled. But even startx isn't working, and > again the Xorg log doesn't give any indication what might be the problem. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >