Non root users account logins terminating within 10 seconds

Aaron Gray angray at beeb.net
Fri Sep 8 22:48:31 UTC 2006



Phil Meyer wrote:
> Aaron Gray wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just logged in to be told my account had terminated within 10 
>> seconds. Root is okay but new accounts terminate.
>>
>> Oh. Logging in from remote over SSH they are fine.
>>
>> The only things that I have done recently is to change the SELinux 
>> permissions to Permissive from disabled and back again. Oh and 
>> install ies4Linux in root but that should not effect anything.
>>
>> Oh. and failsafe mode logs into the account okay.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
> using failsafe mode, type metacity

Just sits there and does nothing !
> and watch for errors -- probably permissions
>
> you may want to fix home directories
>
> # chown -R user:group /home/user
>
> The try logging in again.
>
Surely metacity's not the standard window manager ?

Aaron




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