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If you add user and you're still on initial terminal then call for DM< > Not Dungeon Master but Desktop Manager of your liking such as
$gdm
or kdm or xdm if you may
Login from there as normal user
Reaching here, but what does /etc/passwd have for the shell? If it somehow got set to an invalid shell the user can not login. It should probably be /bin/bash
Originally posted by SlackerLX May I ask what's wrong in using DM? DM seems like easy solution to me...
GNOME and KDE too bloated for me
even XFCE (/me using XFCE before) now seems no longer free cholesterol again...
BTW, now i change my question:
what should it be/or the best for:
- owner, group and chmod for /home
- owner, group and chmod for /home/username
- owner, group and chmod for /dev
- owner, group and chmod for /dev/* (like /dev/dsp, /dev/tty?)
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