Problem adding new user...

[Mike McCarty]

Thomas Springer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2005, 13:55 -0600 schrieb Mike McCarty:
> 
>>I am having a problem adding a new user. Perhaps I don't understand
>>the shadow file or sth.
>>
>>I use FC2 with GNOME. I used at first the command-line I/F since
>>I'm more familiar and more comfortable with that technique of
>>sys admin.
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
>>[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ login
>>login: freddy
>>Password:
>>Login incorrect
>> 
>>
>>What am I missing?
>>
>>Mike
>>-- 
> 
> 
> I also did that and got the same result here with FC4.
> 
> There's nothing related to that in
> 
> /var/log/secure
> /var/log/messages
> /var/log/audit/audit.log
> 
> Couldn't find anything helpful in
>  
> rpm -q --changelog util-linux | grep login
> <search> site:bugzilla.redhat.com
> 
> Then I thought of how one could strace `login` ?  ? ?
> 
> Hopefully someone else can tell what's happening.
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 

I have more from /var/log/messages

(1) Nov  8 19:35:50 Presario-1 su(pam_unix)[31141]: session opened for 
user root by jmccarty(uid=500)
(2) Nov  8 19:38:20 Presario-1 passwd(pam_unix)[31179]: password changed 
for freddy
(3) Nov  8 19:38:22 Presario-1 su(pam_unix)[31141]: session closed for 
user root
(4) Nov  8 19:38:28 Presario-1 login(pam_unix)[31181]: authentication 
failure; logname=jmccarty uid=500 euid=500 tty=pts/4 ruser$Nov  8 
19:38:31 Presario-1 login[31181]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR freddy, 
Authentication failure
(5) Nov  8 19:38:31 Presario-1 login(pam_unix)[31181]: bad username []
(6) Nov  8 19:38:34 Presario-1 login[31181]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM (null) 
FOR , Authentication failure
(7) Nov  8 19:38:34 Presario-1 login(pam_unix)[31181]: bad username []
(8) Nov  8 19:38:36 Presario-1 login[31181]: FAILED LOGIN 3 FROM (null) 
FOR , Authentication failure
(9) Nov  8 19:38:37 Presario-1 login(pam_unix)[31181]: bad username []
(10)Nov  8 19:38:39 Presario-1 login[31181]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM 
(null) FOR , Authentication failure
(11)Nov  8 19:38:51 Presario-1 su(pam_unix)[31184]: session opened for 
user root by jmccarty(uid=500)

(1) is me going su - to create the freddy user
(2) is me changing his password using passwd
(3) is me exiting back to myself
(4)-(10) is my trying to use login to log on as freddy, failing, then
just hitting return until login quit trying
(11) is me su - to root so I can get the content of /var/log/messages
for this e-mail

[root at Presario-1 root]# finger freddy
Login: freddy                           Name: (null)
Directory: /home/freddy                 Shell: /bin/bash
Never logged in.
No mail.
No Plan.
[root at Presario-1 root]#

Does this have something to do with freddy not being propagated
to the shadow file?

Nope, I just checked...

[root at Presario-1 root]# grep freddy /etc/shadow
freddy:$1$mMzZcWPf$TubCOWrHFsylDJnnO04qH1:13096:0:99999:7:::
[root at Presario-1 root]#

I did a usermod -c "Freddy" freddy and it took and finger
now shows this Name: rather than (null), but logins still
do not work.

Mike
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