I just installed openSUSE ver 10.3 (i586) KDE: 3.5.7 "release 72.6". My root password works just fine, however, when I try and log on with my USER password I am bounced back to the log in screen, no error messages. I am using the correct user password. For now I am operating as root, I WANT to be in my user account. This is driving me silly buggers. Does anyone have an Idea what might be causing this to happen?

Adriann

As you've just installed openSuSe, and you have root access, just create a new user account or reset the password of the current user account you can't log into.

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Nexus, you expertly pointed out the 'other' problem. I have tried to reset the password and received the same result. To me it makes little sense to create another account until this issue can be corrected. This is a second install of this version as I believed I may have made a mistake with the first install. However, the issue still persists. After the password I press enter, the screen goes dark for about a second then I'm back at the log in. According to my home folder the other user account IS there. While operating as root, so far, everything works perfectly including the password.



Thank you BTW for your help, I'm really stuck on this one

Adriann

Try logon as user at F1 or F2 console, i.e. ctrl+alt+F1 or ctrl+alt+F2. If you're able to logon as user in console mode, then my guess is something is wrong with the desktop permissions for the user.

Hey thanks Wildar, your guess is a heck uv a lot better than mine right now. I guess this is how a person builds experience with the software.


Adriann

If you are leaving intact an existing user account, then it may well be a permissions issue. You can resolve this by issuing on the commandline: chown -R username:username /home/username.

Greetings all, long time to reply on this post, I got involved with life and now finally have time to repursue this password issue. I tried wildar's advice and I could log on in terminal to both accounts. I even tried passwd and changed the passwords in both users accounts. Terminal login worked perfectly again. After I did a reboot and the login Gui asked for my username and the new password, the screen went dark for a second and returned me the login GUI. The second user account did the same thing. The only account that works as it should is for root.

If this is a desktop permission issue, how do I either view/access these permissions?I did bring up my personal files folder and accessed the desktop permissions for the two users, and made two changes with no success.

Any thoughts? suggestions? You guys are the experts.

Adriann

If you don't have any special desktop settings i.e. themes, icons etc you could always delete or rename the .kde folder (if you are using the KDE desktop) this will effectively reset your desktop, then try logging in again.

I have done a new install of 10.3 and have the same problem.
Every time I reset my user password (using the root account) I can log into the user account fine for the first time, then after the reboot I can no longer log in as the user. You can see that the password has even changed as the proper password has 7 digit and the rogue password that keeps appearing has only 5!
Thought it was me at first being stupid but as someone else is having the same problem then there must be more to it.

Did you happen to install other gui's like Gnome, XFCE, Fluxbox during the initial install of SuSE 10.3?

If yes, try logon using something other then KDE. If it works, then there's something wrong with KDE.

If no, try making a new account from console as root: "# adduser test", followed by "passwd test"
Once this is done, switch back to gui with ctrl+alt+F7 and try to logon as test.