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
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
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 lucklog 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. -- 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 .
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. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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 > . > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++