On Tuesday 13 July 2010 20:23:05 Patrick Kobly wrote: > Late to the party, but: > > $ ls -ld /home/gary > $ ls -l /home/gary/.Xauthority > > post the results > > $ rm /home/gary/.Xauthority > > try again. > > Chances are a stale .Xauthority file exists that's owned by the UID of > the gary account on the old server. Might want to recursively chown the > contents of the home dir if that's the case: > > # chown -R gary /home/gary > > PK As I've said on another reply I've deleted .Xauthority file. However, checking the new one having tried to log in a few times I have found that it hasn't been recreated. The permission for the home directory is: [root@lcomp3 gary]# ls -ld /home/gary drwxr-xr-x. 82 gary gary 20480 Jul 14 09:33 /home/gary Gary -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
