Ok I have been using Linux for 4 months now as Root. I have decided to create a new account to use as I have heard using root all the time is bad.

I am running Mandrake 9.1 and went into the Control Panel and started userdrake. After creating the account I logged out and back into the new account.

It logs in but I can not do anything. I want to be able to browse directories in the terminal but I can't this is what is see when I go to terminal

bash-2.05$b

When I log in to KDE I get an error that it can't create a home directory.

In userdrake there are a bunch of groups. Do I need to add these to my account?


My overall objective is to create a new account where I can log in and manage the webserver files and move them around and stuff

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Luke

your user would belong to the user group by default i believe. Didn't you have to create a regular user during the install? Maybe you already have a user by that name who knows. Regardless, running as a regular user, you'll still have to su to move any files outside of your /home dir. I wouldn't advise running as root simply b/c one mistake can be a big problem. look at the users you have and open /home and see if there are any directories in there.


What do you expect to see at the terminal?
type
ls /home

That will show you all dir in the /home dir

If I go to the terminal and type ls it says permission denied.

I can do nothing. THere is no home directory or anything. I have created 3 accounts now with userdrake and all have the same problems.

try to cd /home/<username>

<username> being the user you are logged in as

It says no such directory..

This is very strange.. should I try and setup an account manually with out userdrake?

Do you know how to do that?

should be
useradd -m -s /bin/bash johndoe
passwd johndoe


then it will ask you to enter the password twice.

Thanks I created a user withour userdrake and it works like expected.

Thanks again for your help.

Cheers,

Luke