On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:33:22 -0500 Scott Simontis <ssimontis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James McKenzie wrote: > > > Scott Simontis wrote: > > > >> 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. > > I managed to fix it. I had to disable SE, and now everything works fine. > Have you labeled your file system. If not that is probably the SELinux problem. Rather than disable it do: sudo touch /.autorelabel then reboot. This will relable your file system and should get rid of the SELinux problems. > -- > Scott Simontis > ssimontis@xxxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097
