[CentOS] user 'not listed' on login screen

2015-06-30 Thread CS DBA
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


Thanks in advance


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Re: [CentOS] user 'not listed' on login screen

2015-06-30 Thread m . roth
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
>
I would think that under no circumstances *should* it show up. It's a user
account for a daemon, and no one should be logging in that way, more like
su to it.

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] user 'not listed' on login screen

2015-06-30 Thread g


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

log in a root user, check for /home/missing-user.

in /etc files; group, gshadow, passwd, shadow, for 'missing-user'.

if missing or present, create user again to see if will correct.

if it is a daemon as Mark suggest, remove daemon.

hth.


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g
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Re: [CentOS] user 'not listed' on login screen

2015-06-30 Thread John R Pierce

On 6/30/2015 10:58 AM, g wrote:

log in a root user, check for /home/missing-user.

in /etc files; group, gshadow, passwd, shadow, for 'missing-user'.

if missing or present, create user again to see if will correct.

if it is a daemon as Mark suggest, remove daemon.



if its the daemon account Mark suggests, don't remove it unless you want 
to also remove the postgresql database server thats depending on it.




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Re: [CentOS] user 'not listed' on login screen

2015-06-30 Thread Valeri Galtsev

On Tue, June 30, 2015 12:58 pm, g wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
> log in a root user, check for /home/missing-user.
>
> in /etc files; group, gshadow, passwd, shadow, for 'missing-user'.
>
> if missing or present, create user again to see if will correct.
>
> 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

>
> hth.
>
>
> --
>
> peace out.
>
> -+-
> If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes...
>  ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it!
> -+-
> in a world with out fences, who needs gates.
> -+-
>
> CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6
>
> tc,hago.
>
> g
> .
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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