Paul Thanks a lot! That solved my problem. I can now login. What about the 2nd issue now? Can I autologin when boot to a selected non-root account? Yigal >-----Original Message----- >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- >bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth >Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:40 AM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: Re: Authentication default > >YigalB wrote: >> I am a newbie.. so I don't know "what I want to use" - I don't need any >> kind of security at all. I just want to be able to logon to other >> accounts... not only root.. >> When I installed the PC I don't recall any Q regarding the >> authentication - and if there was - I probably said "don't care" - ad it >> worked fine until I made the mistake and touched that tab (while trying >> to solve other problem) > >OK, in authconfig, leave all of the "user information" fields blank and >select >"Use MD5 passwords" and "Use shadow passwords" (and nothing else) for >authentication. > >Make sure that the accounts you are trying to log in to have entries in >/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. > >What is the symptom you get when trying to log in as other accounts? Does >it >say "bad password" or something similar, or does it appear to log in and >then >log out again immediately? > >> I even would love to know how to make the PC boot automatically into an >> account I set (not root) without asking me for user name and password.. > >Let's make sure that the other account works first. > >Paul. > > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
