On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> writes: > > John> However, after the install a number of programs will not launch. > John> Frequently I get the error message "Authentication denied: User > John> doesn't exist 521." > > Which programs? I don't know anything about Fedora, but I am able to > apply the General Problem Solving Algorithm, generally. That nice > man, Mr Google, doesn't seem to recognize that error message, are you > certain that's literally the error message you get? > > > -- > Russell Senior, President > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
Cat /etc/shadow and it should give you the UID of your user and who the mysterious account assigned 521 is. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
