Problem adding new user...

[Mike McCarty]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>Craig White wrote:
>>
>>>----
>>>reassert the password...
>>>
>>>passwd freddy #assuming you change it back
>>>              # re-enter password - watch out for caps lock key
>>>              # perhaps try a different password to make sure
>>>              # the hash changes in /etc/shadow
>>>
>>>Craig
>>
>>Yep. Same symptoms. I cannot use login to log in as freddy, a
>>newly created user.
> 
> ----
> create another user...and try.
> 
> did you ever manually edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow so perhaps there's
> a mismatch between them?

Nope. I only used useradd, userdel, passwd, usermod, and the Gnome
tools.

I just tried with another user name, and it fails the same exact
way.

Mike
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