Problems Creating a User Account

[Richard E Miles]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:33:22 -0500
Scott Simontis <ssimontis at spymac.com> wrote:

> James McKenzie wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I managed to fix it. I had to disable SE, and now everything works fine.
> 
Have you labeled your file system. If not that is probably the SELinux
problem. Rather than disable it do:
sudo touch /.autorelabel then reboot.
This will relable your file system and should get rid of the SELinux problems.

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