>I've just created a new user for the purpose of running backup scripts. A >home directory has been created, but I am unable to log in as that user. I >get the 'your session lasted less than 10 seconds' error. Sure enough, the >new user does not get a space allocated in /tmp, and without that I can't run >the setup scripts. > >What could have gone wrong? What do you mean when you say 'the new user does not get a space allocated in /tmp'? Users dont get space allocated in /tmp, but they do need write-access to the /tmp directory, and so /tmp is normally world-writeable. It also has the 'sticky' bit set in the file-permissions so that only the owner can remove files from /tmp. If you do 'ls -l / | grep tmp' you should see drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 4096 Mar 26 18:36 tmp Is this true on your system? Cheers, Terry. > >Anne
