Problem adding new user...

[Mike McCarty]

Guillou Erwan wrote:
> Le Mardi 08 Novembre 2005 23:02, Mike McCarty a écrit :
> 
>>Guillou Erwan wrote:

[snip]

>>>Under root account you can also try su - user.
>>>It should not ask for password but it will launch a login shell.
>>
>>It should indeed. But I don't want new users logging in as root
>>in order to su to themselves!
> 
> I understand for the root account that you don't want any body to use it.
> It was just to validate that login was working properly. If it works, it may 
> comes from the password and not from the user account setting (shell, home 
> directory)

I find that not only does su - freddy work, but I can log into
the machine as freddy, using CONTROL-ALT-F1 alternate console,
but the login program does not work from inside a gnome-term.

Looks like some kind of defect to me.

Mike
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