[NCLUG] gdm funkiness

[Mike Loseke]

 Ok, pain in the tuckus time. RedHat(KRUD) 7.1 machines, 2 seperate
machines setup identically and user is unable to login on the gdm-powered
X console login screen on either. Dumps him back out to the gdm screen.
User's home dir is automounted via NFS/autofs. Was working great, user
logged out to reset something and couldn't log back in.

/var/log/messages has the following:

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Dec 13 16:04:08 zuma gdm(pam_unix)[2425]: session opened for user MYUSER by (uid=0)
Dec 13 16:04:09 zuma gdm[2425]: gdm_slave_session_start: MYUSER on :0
Dec 13 16:04:09 zuma gdm(pam_unix)[2425]: session closed for user MYUSER
Dec 13 16:04:09 zuma gdm[2425]: gdm_auth_user_remove: /lsi/home/MYUSER is not owned by uid 0.
Dec 13 16:04:09 zuma gdm[2425]: gdm_auth_user_remove: Ignoring suspiciously looking cookie file /lsi/home/MYUSER/.Xauthority
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 Bad grammar aside, any clue? A search on google resulted in the question
asked many times but never answered. We've removed the .Xauthority file
only to have the beaviour repeated and the file recreated.


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