RStudio Server - Log-in and User Authentication Problems

If users are unable to log-in to RStudio Server, please reference the following:

Privileged accounts

RStudio prohibits signing in with a user id below 100. Make sure your user id is above this threshold.

Limitations of PAM authentication

If you are using PAM to authenticate users, note that RStudio does not currently implement the PAM Session API. If your PAM configuration requires this, it will not work as expected (for example, if you are using the PAM Session API to mount home directories from an NFS share). We hope to overcome this limitation in a future release.

Other Log-in Problems

If users are still unable to log-in to RStudio Server, open a new discussion and provide any relevant details as noted below:

System information

  • Version of RStudio
  • Output from sessionInfo() in standard R console

Error information

  • General description
  • Error messages
  • Log files (See here)
  • Attempted steps taken to fix
  • Have users successfully logged-in to RStudio Server in the past?

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