I just upgraded from Fed33 to Fed35. I kept my /home directory intact and initialized the others, as I usually do, and after the installation was complete logged in. Everything looked fine, so I created a couple of users I have as 'alteregos', logged out, and tried to log in as one of them. In both cases, I entered the password, it took a couple of seconds, and kicked me back to the user list without logging me in.

As a test, I went back to my main account and created a new user (with no password), logged out, and logged in as that new user. It did fine.

So, why can't I log in on my other /home/userdir directories? I've checked and the directory owners correctly match the account names.

Does this mean your user names in /etc/passwd are in sync with output of ls -n /home?

Whoa... I didn't look that close. The names were both there, but 'usera' owned the directory for 'userb' and vice versa, because the order I created them in didn't match the original creation order. I fixed it with a couple of "chown -R" calls. Many thanks!

I think I did it once upon a time by editing /etc/passwd. It seems to be the purview of the usermod command though.

As root you could rename the existing home directories with mv, create new users/directories correctly with mkuser -g ### -u ###, then delete the new directories and move the originals back using the correct number values with chown:chgrp.

I considered something like that, but using 'chown -R name:name /home/name' for both users seemed easier to me. It may have some minor unexpected consequences, but I think I'll be okay.

So, is this SOLVED now?

Yes -- sorry I forgot that with my last post.