Problem adding new user...

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:31 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 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.
---
can you su ?

su - freddy

Craig


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