[PLUG] Authentication denied: User doesn't exist 521

[drew wymore]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> 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?
>
>
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Cat /etc/shadow and it should give you the UID of your user and who
the mysterious account assigned 521 is.

Drew-