Hey everyone:
I just installed Fedora Core 3 a few days ago. During the first boot configuration, I created a user account. When I attempted to log in, I found that I could not use the account. I thought I made a mistake somewhere creating the account, and logged in as root to see what the problem was. When I checked the Users and Groups program, I found that nothing was listed.
Looking around with google, just about the only thing I could find on the problem was BugZilla Bug # 116391, although it deals with shadow passwords. I have been unable to find any other information on the problem.
Does anyone know what is stopping me from creating an account? Here is the output of ls -l /etc/passwd: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1441 Feb 23 19:33 /etc/passwd
FC3 uses the /etc/shadow file (as do most current *nix's). Check the permissions of this file. If this file has 644 (the same as /etc/passwd) then take a close look at the Bugzilla entry.
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James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
and ibm-acpi .1
Need a home for my .rpm
