Allegedly, on or about 24 December 2015, Walter Cazzola sent:
I have let the installer create my user and it has given it uid 1000
and gid 1000. This is the standard behavior and I'm used to change it
by manually edit /etc/group and /etc/passwd but this time this
behavior has broken my user. I can't enter at the kde login (before in
the splash screen it was asking for the password of my user than
asking for a password but no user was specified and I got a login erro
when I use my passowrd).
Edit those files to change the IDs.
chown recursively the /home/username in question
Likewise with /var/spool/mail/username in question
Delete and /tmp/ files belonging to the username, just in case anything
has lingered.
But what have you changed the ID values to? Have you set them lower
than 1000? That will probably affect login.
For what it's worth, when I set up a new system, my philosophy is to set
up a test user or two, as well as my own username. It may be worth
while doing that first, then setting up yourself with a higher ID.
Giving you some non-valuable logins to test things with.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
I don't think it's pure coincidence that "officialdom" sounds the same
as "official dumb."