On Sunday 26 March 2006 19:42, T. Horsnell wrote: > >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'? I was thinking of the directories created by kde which I believe get set up when a Desktop is created. > 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? > It wasn't. I had drwxrwxr-x 17 root users 4096 Mar 26 19:13 tmp I've corrected that, and of course the script can now run. I suspect that I shall also be able to log in, though I haven't tried it yet. Thanks for the help, Terry. Anne
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