Hello all...
I'm just a mass of problems this week.   The old hard drive on my SuSE system 
died, and I'm trying to bring it up on another system.  This time for some 
reason it didn't prompt me to add a user.  It come up with the graphical 
login, and not having created a user, I tried to log in as root - wouldn't 
allow it.  So I did ctrl-alt-F2 and logged in as root in text mode.    I 
added the group "vaughn" and the user "vaughn" and the directory 
/home/vaughn.  I also did a password for my new user, and verified that there 
was a shell set there (thanks, Hans.)  Then I copied the directories from 
/etc/skel and the config files from the .root directory.  So it looks like I 
have a viable home directory.  I logged out and tested logging in as "vaughn" 
in text mode; it worked.  Then I did ctrl-alt-F7 to get back to the graphical 
login.  I entered "vaughn" and my password; the response is "Login Failed."  
I supposed there must be a security setting somewhere that's prohibiting my 
login, but I'm not sure where it would be.  I looked in /var/log for the 
authentication log, to look for my login failure in hopes of seeing exactly 
what the problem was, but there was no such file, and I couldn't find any 
messages related to a failed X login.  Can anyone point me in the right 
direction?

Thanks again,
Vaughn Treude