Hello again,

Thought I'd update you guys, in case someone else should stumble upon this 
problem.
Having no luck on this, I decided just to create another user.   I did 
groupadd, useradd, passwd, and created the home direc, but I didn't copy in 
any config files.  The graphical login succeeded on this one!  Then I thought 
I must have screwed up copying those files from the /root directory - so I 
deleted them in the original "/home/vaughn" directory and tried again.  Still 
won't log in!  It's no longer an urgent problem, just a puzzling one: why did 
it work in one case and not the other?  Also, I checked the kdmrc file and 
discovered that there is indeed an option to prevent root from logging in 
graphically - which is what I figured had happened - but it wasn't set!  So 
there was some other funny stuff going on around here.

Regards,
Vaughn

On Thursday 06 November 2003 15:51, you wrote:
> 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
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