Problems Creating a User Account

[James McKenzie]

Scott Simontis wrote:
> Hey everyone:
> 
> I just installed Fedora Core 3 a few days ago. During the first boot
> configuration, I created a user account. When I attempted to log in, I found that
> I could not use the account. I thought I made a mistake somewhere creating the
> account, and logged in as root to see what the problem was. When I checked the
> Users and Groups program, I found that nothing was listed.
> 
> Looking around with google, just about the only thing I could find on the problem
> was BugZilla Bug # 116391, although it deals with shadow passwords. I have been
> unable to find any other information on the problem.
> 
> Does anyone know what is stopping me from creating an account? Here is the output
> of ls -l /etc/passwd:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1441 Feb 23 19:33 /etc/passwd

FC3 uses the /etc/shadow file (as do most current *nix's).  Check the 
permissions of this file.  If this file has 644 (the same as 
/etc/passwd) then take a close look at the Bugzilla entry.
-- 
James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
and ibm-acpi .1
Need a home for my .rpm