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Here is the official bug report on this issue with more details & comments.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17504
This was installed on real hardware and my /home is on a separate partition. x86_64 arch.

After installing Magiea-6-sta1-live-dvd, I'm not able to log into a second user account using the 'Switch User' feature. At the sddm screen I get login failed message. Two old users, debbie & speden, both show as 'expired' and changing the 'Expire date' doesn't make a difference.

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# ls -l /home
total 36
drwx------ 28 debbie  debbie  4096 Jul  3 17:29 debbie/
drwxr-xr-x 17 saptech live    4096 Jul  3 22:35 live/
drwx------  2 root    root   16384 Mar 20  2015 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 60 saptech live    4096 Jul  4 08:47 saptech/
drwx------ 34 speden  speden  4096 May 12 09:43 speden/

# ls -al /etc/ | grep shadow
-r--r-----   1 root shadow    810 Jul  3 23:38 gshadow
-r--r-----   1 root shadow    803 Jul  3 23:38 gshadow-
-rw-r-----   1 root shadow   5396 Feb 12 13:48 login.defs
-r--r-----   1 root shadow   1025 Jul  3 22:51 shadow
-r--r-----   1 root shadow    962 Jul  3 22:51 shadow-
-rw-------   1 root root        0 Jun 29 08:44 shadow.lock

I noticed this around July 4. This has been an ongoing issue and I posted my issue with someone else having a similar issue.

If I create a brand new user, it works fine, but current users are having problems, except for the original 'saptech' account.

Thnx.

You didn't remove /etc/shadow.lock ?

If it's still there, then please remove it

Yeah it's working to manual fix to it.

Yes, I deleted the shadow lock file.

I deleted & recreated user speden. It showed as Locked and I unlocked it. I rebooted and logged in as saptech and switched to tty2, signed in as speden, but it went straight to the user prompt ($). It didn't ask for a password, even though I gave it one.

Was this originally a Live install or a traditional install?

With which tool did you delete user speden?

Can you retry (so make sure there's no lock file and delete user speden) and then see whether the following commands return anything:

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grep speden /etc/passwd

and as root:

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grep speden /etc/shadow

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grep speden /etc/gshadow

(they should all return nothing after deleting speden)

Oh, and I don't use sudo, but you might have something about speden in the sudoers file. Please do

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grep speden /etc/sudoers

, too.

And the output of

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grep wheel /etc/sudoers

would be nice to see, too.

Regarding recently created users not being able to log in (after the fix in Bug 17504),
there is work being done on Bug 18930

According to philippe makowski that your posted bug is duplicate.

Seems that we have to set this one as a duplicate of #17504

Here is right one.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17504

marja wrote:Was this originally a Live install or a traditional install?
Yes, Mga5 Live but /home is on separate partition.

With which tool did you delete user speden?

MCC, Users & Groups.

Can you retry (so make sure there's no lock file and delete user speden) and then see whether the following commands return anything:

I deleted & recreated user speden. It showed as Locked and I unlocked it.

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grep speden /etc/passwd

and as root:
speden:x:1002:1002:speden:/home/speden:/bin/bash

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grep speden /etc/shadow

speden::16991::99999:::18314:

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grep speden /etc/gshadow

speden:!!::

(they should all return nothing after deleting speden)

Oh, and I don't use sudo, but you might have something about speden in the sudoers file. Please do

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grep speden /etc/sudoers

, too.
I haven't added speden to the sudoers file since removing it.

And the output of

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grep wheel /etc/sudoers

would be nice to see, too.

Same, haven't added speden yet.

Sorry, I've been busy and haven't been using Mga6 lately. I'm getting the time to start back. Thanks.