Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop
On 10/09/2012 04:53 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP
and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a
user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I
set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home
directory. I can log her in as an su user with no problem. When I
re-boot the system and the splash screen comes up (KDE4), I can enter
her name and password but the system rejects the pass word. I've
checked everything about 3 times and can find nothing wrong. I would
guess that I have missed some niggally detail. The Windows XP side
works fine. Any ideas?
Gary R.
Thanks for all of the suggestions. Still no fix. In answer to all of
your questions:
1. The most telling would be the suggestion to hit Ctl+Alt+F1 to get the
cmd line and try logging in. The log in worked fine with my wife's user
name and password.
2. My wife's uid is 1001 so no problem here.
3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and group
are exactly the same as my entries.
4. Dpkg-reconfigure kdm pauses for a few seconds and returns to the cmd
prompt.
5. We are going to be traveling and I don't want to remove the password
protection from the computer.
There is a Systems Setting -> Advanced -> Login Manager window that has
possibilities but I haven't been able to figure out how to start the
application as root. Most of the functions are grayed out.
Gary R.
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