I installed Debian 2.1 on a 486 w/ 8 MB of ram. I have 2 newbie questions actually:

1. For some reason I can only login as root.
I created a user with "useradd" (with the "-p" , and other parameters). Checked the /etc/passwd file, the user was there and checked my password in the etc/shadow file to make sure I was using the correct one.
Still can't login.

2. I removed X in all startup scripts as I dont plan to use it. How do I find and delete all the files associated with it (I was using xdm) to reclaim the space on my humongous 695 MB HD?

Thanks

I have no great advice on question 1, but for your second question I suggest you start by doing a dpkg -l | grep xfree86, and do an apt-get remove packagename for each of the packages that you want to have removed. Then use dselect to browse through the installed packages and hit the minus key on your keyboard for each X application that is installed and that you want to remove.

Håkan

hi!
concerning question 1), I can only think you did something wrong creting the user
What is the EXACT command you wrote to create the user? (if you don't remember, try it again, and we will see )
Btw, didn't you create an user along the installation?
Regards

Thanks for your replies!

Re: question#1

I used "useradd -m -g users -p blahblah -s /bin/bash ed" The user "ed" is in the passwd file so it was created, as far as I know.

hw-tph: I will try your suggestions this weekend

Regards

note that the argument of '-p' es the output of the crypt function (see 'man useradd')
you should try
now you have a disabled user; to enable it
that should work.
Regards

I thought the -p parameter was to specify the password.

Thanks Y0jiMb0 and Håkan!