On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:30 -0500, Don Flinn wrote: > 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 Problem Solved: The home directory for the lost user was owned by root. I evidently made that mistake when trying to remove OpenOffice, although I don't remember doing it. Changing ownership back to the lost user solved the problem. Thanks all for your help. Don
