More login problems....

> On Nov 06 2003, at 15:51, Vaughn Treude was caught saying:
> > 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?