Loggin In Problem - 2nd Request

[Brentley]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:27:08 -0400, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 

My guess is that you did a 'useradd -p' and specified the password. 
While this sounds like it will work, the password needs to be in
encrypted form already.  Instead do 'useradd username' followed by
'passwd username'

Hope that helps.