One day I decided to fire up Kali Linux and login as my normal user. To my surprise, it went right back to the login screen. I kept trying to login with my user with the correct login info and still it would loop back to the login screen. When I tried the root account it will let me login. I tried creating new users and still, it looped back to the login screen. I tried googling to see if others had this problem. I tried dropping into a shell with cntrl+alt+F1 and I tried the dpkg --configure -a, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and still it doesn't work to login to normal user. I even tried reinstalling the whole operating system from a live usb and it's STILL doing it. I can only login from the root account. I even tried reinstalling to a different hard drive and it's STILL doing it. I never had this problem before and I don't understand why all of a sudden I can't log into my normal user accounts. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

It never ends does it...

Please install a distro that uses normal users by default.

Or learn enough Linux to even be able to provide us with relevant information.

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Learn enough Linux to give you relevant info? Honestly why even bother posting a reply when you can't give relevant information? Thanks...

I'm here for help, not to be "bashed" for my lack of Linux skills.

Hi,
there are a huge number of posts here from people without technical skills trying to use Kali Linux. It can get a little tedious. The general idea is that if you are posting questions (of a certain type) about Kali Linux, then you probably shouldn't be using it.

Evo2.

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How am I supposed to learn then?

Hi,

By using a distro that is better suited to new users. Why did you choose Kali Linux?

Evo2.

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First of all, if you want to use Kali just read what is it at all. Next, if you want to use Kali learn about the features/tools built into it and finally:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...rs-4175633618/

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Whatever, I figured it out myself. Figured there was no home directory for the user so I ran mkhomedir_helper username. Rebooted and it worked. Thanks for all the help guys on switching to a new distro. I'll stick with Kali. Peace.

just one comment on it: you gave no relevant info, there was no chance [for us] to puzzle out the reason.
good luck

Kali isn't meant to be run by a normal user: many of the tools require root. Because Kali is normally run in a virtual environment on a laptop (think red team), the safety of using it with a normal user is irrelevant. You can certainly install it and run as a normal user, but this is not what kali was designed for.

As others have pointed out, we get tons of posts asking how to do something in kali but what many folks fail to realize is kali is a pentest distro and not meant to use on a daily basis except for that specific task.

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OP:
What I wrote is actually in harmony with what Kali developers wrote themselves:

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I am with you, if you cant ask questions without getting bashed, what is the point of this site? Usually the people that wont help, don't know.

They reason the responses were they way they were is because people, for whatever reason, try to use Kali Linux as a daily driver when it was designed for anything but. Kali has a singular purpose: pen testing. Maybe people want to appear "l33t" or whatever but they are only creating problems for them selves. In this case, OP never explained why they are using Kali, they just threw out a flippant answer and never responded.

We get dozens of posts like this. There are stickies on the forums when you view at top level that have multiple links to Kali resources. No one appears to read them though, which is their fault, not the people trying to answer questions like this.

Maybe next time

https://www.interfacett.com/blogs/ad...in-kali-linux/

https://esc.sh/blog/how-to-create-ne...ser-with-sudo/