Problem adding new user...
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Nov 9 02:31:56 UTC 2005
Craig White wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----
> create another user...and try.
>
> did you ever manually edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow so perhaps there's
> a mismatch between them?
Nope. I only used useradd, userdel, passwd, usermod, and the Gnome
tools.
I just tried with another user name, and it fails the same exact
way.
Mike
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