LXDE (lxdm) how to add users that can be visible in the login screen?

[phibuntu]

Hi all

I have newly installed "ubuntu server" together with "lxde" on my laptop.

I added some users using the "useradd" command in the shell, which works fine (I can switch to their profile using "su <username>" in the bash).

In the login-screen however they do not appear. More: When I enter those user names and passwords, the system seams not to know those users. It only accepts me (as installer of the system or as administrator, or or ???).

Any Ideas how to add a user in lxde to the graphical login manager?

thanks in advance

[papibe]

I would recommend using 'adduser' instead of 'useradd'.

'adduser' does the complete job of creating an user.

Regards.

[phibuntu]

Thanks for your prompt reply, but this was probably only one mistake of several.

I removed the old users (those which I generatet wich "userad") using "userdel". After that I generated them newly with "adduser".

There are still only the following "users" in the graphical login dialog:

* syslog
* <my - own - admin - username>
* usbmux daemon

Any other Ideas?

[phibuntu]

I have just tried the menu item "Preferences -> users and groups" It generates the users also, but remains the same problem in the login screen.

[sudodus]

Maybe they will appear after rebooting the computer.

[phibuntu]

Nope, I restarted several Times. But thanks for the hint.

Does anyone know the exact boot process of ubuntu-sever edidion together with lxde?

[sudodus]

I don't know any graphical interface to add and edit users for lxde. But for xfce there is one, so maybe you can install xfce.

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

It is

users-admin

which actually belongs to gnome and will be installed with

sudo apt-get install gnome-system-tools

so it should work if you 'only' install that one. I think that, as long as you don't run gnome, it will not slow down your computer, it only occupies space on the HDD.

And finally, I have recently installed a desktop system with xfce, added lxde and added a user. That user showed up at login after using users-admin to create it.

[phibuntu]

Thanks, but I already have users-admin installed.
If I ad the users using "adduser" or with the tool "user-admin" does not make a difference in the login screen.

It is NOT a problem of adding users. This works fine. They get a home directory, a password which I tested using "su" and "whoami". Everything great.

The only problem is, that the login screen shows not that what I want. I want to show up the users in the login screen, which are also presentet with "user-admin". But at the moment only myself (admin) and two absolutely nonsense users "syslog" and some "deamon" are in the list.

Other Ideas?

[sudodus]

I see. This behaviour is different from the desktop flavours.

- Maybe some little program or setting (file or entry in file) is missing, and I have no more ideas, what to do.

- Or maybe a security issue, that regular users are not supposed to log in to the server via the console.

Let us hope that someone running Ubuntu Server with LXDE will read this and suggest what to do.

[phibuntu]

Yes.

And probably the tiltel of this thread schould read something like this>

Ubuntu Server edition. LXDE-Login-Screen shows wired users.

I will sort out the login procedure of the server edidion. The displayed user-list MUST be stored somewhere....