slackware 11.0

I have looked this up on the web and it seems straight forward but yet I can't log into any user accounts after I moved the home directory.

1) System with old home on hda1.
2) Made home directory on mounted /d (this is hdc2)
3) init 1 then cp -ax /old_home/* /d/home/.
4) ln -s /d/home home

hdc2 is already in fstab as /d and automounts.

Using KDM to login. The screen switches like is going to log in but then it just comes back to the KDM dialog box.

I compared the permission, owners and groups of old_home to /d/home and they look the same.

I'm stumped.

Can you switch to runlevel 3 (or maybe Ctrl-Alt-F6) and try to log in? Then you can see error messages.

Brian

Does /etc/passwd reflect the correct home directory now that you've moved it?

Perhaps this was the purpose of your ln -s /d/home home command, but I wasn't sure since you didn't specify the target as /old_home/ which is presumably what was originally in /etc/passwd.

If it's not a typo in the original post, we can't really be sure the command "ln -s /d/home home" has created an appropriate link. It would if that was run from the root directory. If not, it should read "ln -s /d/home /home", if I'm not mistaken.

I found it.

The symbolic link was good and so were the permissions but I had the mount options in fstab set to auto,users. I set the mount options to "defaults" and it now works. I believe it was the lack of the "exec" option that messed it up and exec is included in defaults.

Thanks for your replies.
--rick