On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:31 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Craig White wrote: > >> > >>>---- > >>>reassert the password... > >>> > >>>passwd freddy #assuming you change it back > >>> # re-enter password - watch out for caps lock key > >>> # perhaps try a different password to make sure > >>> # the hash changes in /etc/shadow > >>> > >>>Craig > >> > >>Yep. Same symptoms. I cannot use login to log in as freddy, a > >>newly created user. > > > > ---- > > create another user...and try. > > > > did you ever manually edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow so perhaps there's > > a mismatch between them? > > Nope. I only used useradd, userdel, passwd, usermod, and the Gnome > tools. > > I just tried with another user name, and it fails the same exact > way. --- can you su ? su - freddy Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
