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

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:59:47 -0700
Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:

>On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:47 AM, John Jason Jordan
><johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:52:26 -0700
>> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>>
>> >However, after the install a number of programs will not launch.
>> >Frequently I get the error message "Authentication denied: User
>> >doesn't exist 521."

>> The problem is more or less resolved. I haven't seen the error
>> message since yesterday sometime.

>So now can you look at /etc/passwd and tell us who user 521 is? Maybe
>he got created with one of those updates.

Sure. I just looked at /etc/passwd, and at /etc/passwd-. Interestingly,
they have time stamps of 19:17 and 19:01 yesterday, which is roughly
when I did the upgrade from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13.

But the error message did get one thing right - user 521 does not
exist.