Problem adding new user...

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > ----
> > reassert the password...
> > 
> > passwd freddy #assuming you change it back
> >               # re-enter password - watch out for caps lock key
> >               # perhaps try a different password to make sure
> >               # the hash changes in /etc/shadow
> > 
> > Craig
> 
> Yep. Same symptoms. I cannot use login to log in as freddy, a
> newly created user.
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create another user...and try.

did you ever manually edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow so perhaps there's
a mismatch between them?

Craig


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