Cant Log Into Normal User

ToofDogger · 09-02-2005, 09:56 PM

for some reason (I can't even guess why) whenever I try to log into my account that's not root (called family) it just wont let me and all I can do is log in as root...

shams · 09-02-2005, 10:28 PM

any one can log in with user and password.

ToofDogger · 09-02-2005, 10:44 PM

I know that hahah, but when I try it just turns into a blue screen for a second then goes back to the screen that asks you for a password (and yes I am typing the username and password correctly)

poochdog · 09-06-2005, 06:40 AM

If you login as root then try and login as family through a terminal window, what happens then?

ethics · 09-06-2005, 07:23 AM

Have you ever been able to login as family?

i had similar problems when using the

useradd -d <path to home>

command.

It would still retain root as the owner of all the users home files, and so when the user logged in it couldn't read/write any of the files and so couldn't login.

I fixed it by always changing the users home file ownership to them (chown /home/user user)
before logging in,