Hi all.. I have ran across a strange problem. I have just installed Slackware on my laptop and everything seemed great. I could login as Root and KDE looked fine. I decided to add some users via command line. After I added one, I tried to login in to KDE and received lots of permission denied errors and could not create /home/amdmhz folder errors. It then kicked me back to the command line. So I logged on as root which went fine and I added a user via KDE User wizard. I made sure it create a user folder.

I log out and logged in as the new user and it worked fine. So now I am confused as to why adding users command based does not setup the users right. I have no problem using Slackware on my Other system.

Has anyone else ran into this problem?

Thanks for your help
Amdmhz

Try the program called adduser, this will step-by-step setup a user for your system. It comes with slackware, so don't worry. It will create /home/~~ and it sets users up correctly in my experience.

Ummm... I already know about this command and that is what I am talking about in this post... I setup the user with that command and when I start KDE I get errors ...It even has trouble going into startx as a user.

Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks

Check and make sure that the user's home directory actually did get created. I seem to recall that unless you specify the -m flag to useradd, the home directory is not created.

This is used with the useradd command, not the adduser command. What you might want to do is boot up to the first Slackware CD, and login as root and type setup then you can configure your slackware system without re-installing. This is similar to typing sysinstall in FreeBSD. Also, make sure that your use has permission to start X. If you get an error message, It helps if you can post the message.