On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 23:19 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Did FC3 change so much that I really missed the boat? :-) > > I discovered to my dismay after installing my new FC3 > OS along with the updates in the last few days that when > I got around to create a normal account (non-root), I find > that no matter how I tried, I am unable to log in! I can log > in as root, update the password, delete and recreate the > account, there is no possible way to log in! I even tried > as root, the "su - myaccount" and even THAT fails with a > "su: incorrect password"! > > I have created several other users, using the gui interface > and useradd and the results are the same! What is going on!? > > I am only able to log into FC3 as root! > > Can someone shed some light on this for me please? Do you have any non-local authentication requirements configured? Fire up system-config-authentication and make sure you've not got LDAP authentication etc. turned on. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
