11-05-2008
I had a similar case few years ago...
I dont remember exactly what I did, my case was one account was in this situation not the others... I compared and found nothing obvious, so I recreated the account:
created a new account, move what I needed for the other except all X stuff, chown -R the home directory, deleted, the old and move the new one...
Clear the growing sessions!
Have you tried connecting with another user through your KVM to see if it ends the same way or succeeds?
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lusermod
lusermod(8) System Manager's Manual lusermod(8)
NAME
lusermod - Modify an user
SYNOPSIS
lusermod [OPTION]... user
DESCRIPTION
Modifies the user with name user.
OPTIONS
-c, --gecos=gecos
Set user's GECOS field to gecos. The GECOS field is traditionally used to store user's real name and other information.
-d, --directory=directory
Set user's home directory to directory.
-g, --gid=gid
Change user's primary group ID to gid. If group with ID gid does not exist, a warning is printed, but the operation is performed
anyway.
-i, --interactive
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
-L, --lock
Lock user's account. This prevents logging in using user's password.
-l, --login=name
Rename user to name.
-m, --movedirectory
After changing user's home directory (using the -d option), move the old home directory to the new location.
-P, --plainpassword=password
Set user's password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lusermod using tools such as ps(1).
-p, --password=encrypted
Set user's password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lusermod
using tools such as ps(1).
-s, --shell=shell
Set user's login shell to shell.
-U, --unlock
Unlock user's account.
-u, --uid=uid
Change user's user ID to uid.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
libuser Feb 27 2008 lusermod(8)