New user problem in FC4
T. Horsnell
tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Sun Mar 26 18:42:37 UTC 2006
>I've just created a new user for the purpose of running backup scripts. A
>home directory has been created, but I am unable to log in as that user. I
>get the 'your session lasted less than 10 seconds' error. Sure enough, the
>new user does not get a space allocated in /tmp, and without that I can't run
>the setup scripts.
>
>What could have gone wrong?
What do you mean when you say 'the new user does not get a space allocated in /tmp'?
Users dont get space allocated in /tmp, but they do need write-access to
the /tmp directory, and so /tmp is normally world-writeable. It also has the
'sticky' bit set in the file-permissions so that only the owner can remove
files from /tmp.
If you do 'ls -l / | grep tmp' you should see
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 4096 Mar 26 18:36 tmp
Is this true on your system?
Cheers,
Terry.
>
>Anne
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