Loggin In Problem - 2nd Request

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 20:18, Shadow wrote:
> Hi all.......I am troubleshooting why I can't log into Fedora 2.6.6.1.
> I created an account for myself.....and I can't use it to log into
> Fedora...the error message says that the username or password is
> incorrect.  I checked it -  I deleted and re-created the account - I
> checked case.......I checked system logs to no avail.  I can, however,
> log in as root.....any ideas, anyone?
> 
> Shadow

Well you did not provide much to go on.  

Type of system may help.  How exactly did you create the user, GUI or
adduser?

A few things to check:

Make sure you don't have num lock or caps lock set.  

As root change the users password to something very simple at first.

If that works then change the password again to something better.

Did you edit the passwd or shadow files by hand?

Are you using ldap, kerberos, NIS or some other type of authentication?

Does the username have any special characters in it?

Have you tried creating different users?

Did you create a home directory for the user?  

Check the permissions on the passwd and shadow files.

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