On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:55 +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 16.11.2005, 23:26 -0500 schrieb Don Flinn: > > Hi > > > > The other week I was trying to remove OpenOffice to install OpenOffice > > 2.0 because of the repeated crashing of the Fedora version of > > OpenOffice. Somehow, I made my login inoperable. When I tried to login > > the screen went blank for some time then came back to the login screen. > > Logging in as root I created another user. Although I can reach the old > > user directories through /home/oldusr it is a real pain especially with > > my eudora mail (can't read my old mail). I tried to recreate the > > password for the old user by using passwd, but that didn't cure my > > problem. Anyone have a solution to get my old user login to work again. > > > > Hi! > > I encountered a similar problem, with /home directories mounted via NFS > on a SuSE box. When I tried to log in without having my own home, I > crashed back to the login screen while using X. > > Does your home (and the files in it) still belong to you? And are the > permissions set the appropriate way? > > Greetings, > Thomas > > > Don > > > > > > -- > Thomas Widhalm > University of Salzburg, Austria > IT- Services > Systems Management > Unix Systems > pgp/gpg Key: 6265BAE6 > I think that is the problem. looking at /var/messages after the failed login attempt I see: Nov 17 09:54:00 flinn gdm[2561]: gdm_slave_session_start: /home/donfl is not owned by uid 502. Nov 17 09:54:00 flinn gdm[2561]: gdm_auth_user_add: /home/donfl is not owned by uid 502. Looking at /etc/passwd: donfl:x:502:503:Don Flinn:/home/donfl:/bin/bash Should that be 502:502 ? I'm still a newbe at linux but am trying to learn. Don Don Flinn President, Flint Security LLC Tel: 781-856-7230 Fax: 781-631-7693 e-mail: flinn@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://flintsecurity.com
