Hi,
Once you have add the user account, did you check that /home/user was really
existing?
Maybe you have to create it... usually I specify all options for this useradd
command to force shell, directory name, comment.
Else, did you look in log files why login fails ?
You can look in /var/log/secure or auth something name file.
You may find some explanation for the failure.
Under root account you can also try su - user.
It should not ask for password but it will launch a login shell.
Hope it will help,
Regards
Le Mardi 08 Novembre 2005 20:55, Mike McCarty a écrit :
> I am having a problem adding a new user. Perhaps I don't understand
> the shadow file or sth.
>
> I use FC2 with GNOME. I used at first the command-line I/F since
> I'm more familiar and more comfortable with that technique of
> sys admin.
>
> [jmccarty@Presario-1]$ su -
> Password:
> [root@Presario-1 root]# useradd freddy
> [root@Presario-1 root]# passwd freddy
> Changing password for user freddy.
> New UNIX password:
> Retype new UNIX password:
> passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
> [root@Presario-1 root]# exit
> [jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ finger freddy
> Login: freddy Name: (null)
> Directory: /home/freddy Shell: /bin/bash
> Never logged in.
> No mail.
> No Plan.
> [jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ login
> login: freddy
> Password:
> Login incorrect
>
>
> login:
>
>
> login:
> Login incorrect
>
>
> login:
> Login incorrect
>
>
> login:
>
>
> Login incorrect
> [jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ grep freddy /etc/passwd
> freddy:x:502:502::/home/freddy:/bin/bash
> [jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$
>
> I'm sure I typed in the password correctly.
>
> So,...
>
> [jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ su -
> Password:
> [root@Presario-1 root]# userdel -r freddy
> [root@Presario-1 root]# finger freddy
> finger: freddy: no such user.
> [root@Presario-1 root]# exit
> [jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$
>
> Then I used the [RedHat]->System Settings->Users and Groups
> to create the user, with the same results. The user and
> /home/freddy get created, but I can't log in as freddy.
> At least, not using login.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Mike
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