On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 09:33 -0600, Abe Woodrum wrote: > There are two users on the machine; root and oracle. Only root is > able to successfully login to gnome. When trying to login as oracle > I get sent back to the gnome login page. Is oracle a person user, or the username for some software? Many, if not all, of the software users aren't allowed to login. Create a real user for yourself, if that's that case. Login as yourself, su - for anything else special. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.