do you need to restart [xkg]dm?
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?
>
> Thanks again,
> Vaughn Treude
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