Cannot Create New User
Jon Savage
jonathansavage at gmail.com
Tue Nov 16 02:45:08 UTC 2004
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:04:34 -0800, Richard E Miles
<r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a Linux Newbie just trying to learn my way around.
> >
> > I just installed Fedora Core 3 on an Intel Pentium III 1 GHz PC that
> > also runs Windows 2000. I went with the reiserfs.
<SNIP>
> > asked to create a user so I typed in the information. When I went to
> > run Linux again the user name and pw were not accepted so I logged in
> > as root. When I looked at the user list (in User Manager) it was
> > empty. Now here is the strange thing. I add the user jim and input
> > a pw in the Create New User gui. When I click on OK the hour glass
> > just keeps going and going and going ... . I have left the house and
> > come back over two hours later and the new user is still not created!
> >
> > What am I missing here? Where should I start to look? Obviously I
> > do not want to keep running Linux as root. I would appreciate your
Just a stab in the dark-
When you installed FC3 was selinux enabled (the default)?- if so the
last I heard was that reiserfs won't play nice w/ selinux since it
does not support some file attributes that selinux requires. Have a
look at this file: /etc/selinux/config (as root)
Mine looks like:
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - SELinux is fully disabled.
SELINUX=enforcing
# SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are:
# targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
# strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
If yours looks like that change SELINUX=enforcing to:
SELINUX=disabled
You may also need to change SELINUXTYPE=targeted
to:
#SELINUX=disabled
save the file, reboot & see if you can add users.
--
Bests,
Jon
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