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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers New user account problem Ubuntu 12.04 Post 302883356 by Royalist on Monday 13th of January 2014 12:21:32 PM
Old 01-13-2014
New user account problem Ubuntu 12.04

Does anyone have an idea why it is not possible to logon to a newly created user account in Ubuntu 12.04. Is it perhaps a bug with this distro?
On another machine, but running 12.10 there is no such problem.
Accounts have been created with adduser and with GUI. It makes no difference!
The /home owners and the /home/username directories are all both set to the username, but other variations have been tried.
The permissions set are 0740.
Existing accounts which will not allow login and have been deleted with deluser and also with GUI, then new accounts created with different usernames.
Passwords have been successfully changed by sudo passwd. Nothing makes any difference.
This is my final hope before installing 12.10
Code:
Debug log @ 13-01-2014 : 15:42
roy@roy-desktop:~$ sudo adduser --debug ngxxxxx  
 Adding user `ngxxxxx' ...  
 Selecting UID from range 1000 to 29999 ...  
 Selecting GID from range 1000 to 29999 ...  
 Adding new group `ngxxxxx' (1002) ...  
 /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 1002 ngxxxxx  
 Adding new user `ngxxxxx' (1002) with group `ngxxxxx' ...  
 /usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/ngxxxxx -g ngxxxxx -s /bin/bash -u 1002 ngxxxxx  
 Creating home directory `/home/ngxxxxx' ...  
 Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...  
 Enter new UNIX password:  
 Retype new UNIX password:  
 passwd: password updated successfully  
 /usr/bin/chfn ngxxxxx  
 Changing the user information for ngxxxxx  
 Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default  
     Full Name []: Nxxxx-and-Gxxxxx  
     Room Number []:  
     Work Phone []:  
     Home Phone []:  
     Other []:  
 Is the information correct? [Y/n] y  
 roy@roy-desktop:~$ sudo ls -l /home/ngxxxxx  
 [sudo] password for roy:  
 total 12  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 ngxxxxx ngxxxxx 8445 Jan 13 15:39 examples.desktop  
 roy@roy-desktop:~$ sudo chmod -R 0740 /home/ngxxxxx  
 roy@roy-desktop:~$ sudo ls -l /home/ngxxxxx  
 total 12  
 -rwxr----- 1 ngxxxxx ngxxxxx 8445 Jan 13 15:39 examples.desktop

I hope somebody has had this problem before - it is most frustrating!! SmilieSmilieSmilieSmilie
 

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removeuser(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     removeuser(8)

NAME
removeuser - Deletes user accounts interactively SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/removeuser DESCRIPTION
Security Note If you have enhanced security installed on your system, you should use the dxaccounts command to remove users. See the Security manual and the dxaccounts(8) reference page for more information. The removeuser command is an interactive command for deleting user accounts from your system. It also gives the option of deleting the user's home directory, files and mail. The command prompts you for specific information and informs you of its activity and error condi- tions. The removeuser command invokes /usr/sbin/userdel to delete the user account information from /etc/passwd and the hashed password database (if present). Only the superuser can execute this command. The command performs the following tasks: Asks for a login name for the user to be deleted. Enter the login name. If this entry does not exist in the /etc/passwd file, the command informs you of this and exits. If the entry does exist, the command continues. Displays the entry for the user from the /etc/passwd file and asks if this is the entry you want to delete. If the answer to this query is no, the com- mand indicates that the user was not deleted and then exits. If the answer to this query is yes, the command deletes the user's entry from the /etc/passwd file and any occurrences of the user from the /etc/group file. It then states that the user was deleted. Searches several administrative directories and files for occurrences of the user and informs you if they exist. If so, it suggests that you may want to delete these occurrences when the command is finished. If no occurrences of the user are found in these directories and files, the command indicates so. Asks if you want to delete the home directory, all subdirectories, and all mail files for the user. If the answer to this query is no, the command indicates that the user's home directory was not deleted and then exits. If the answer to this query is yes, the command continues. As a precaution, the command reminds you that you should have backed up the files for the user before removing them if you do not want to lose them. It then asks if you are sure that you want to delete the files for this user. If the answer to this query is no, the command indicates that the user's home directory was not deleted and then exits. If the answer to this query is yes, the command states that it is removing the user's home directory, its contents and the user's mail file. It then deletes these items. At this point, the command ends. NOTES
Users are advised to migrate to the /usr/sbin/userdel utility or the dxaccounts utility as this command may be removed in a future version of the operating system. EXAMPLES
Enter a login name to be removed or <Return> to exit: john This is the entry for (john) in the /etc/passwd file: john:VSh6/xbMqPDcY:5006:15:sdf:/usr/users/john: Is this the entry you want to delete (y/n)? y Working ... Entry for (john) removed. Searching relevant directories and files for (john) ... None found. Do you want to remove the home directory, all subdirectories, files, and mail for (john) (y/n)? y The files for (john) will be lost if not backed up. Are you sure you want to remove these files (y/n)? y Deleting /usr/users/john Deleting /usr/spool/mail/john FILES
Specifies the command path Group file Password file SEE ALSO
Commands: addgroup(8), adduser(8), dxaccounts(8), finger(1), mkpasswd(8), passwd(1), useradd(8), userdel(8), vipw(8) Files: group(4), passwd(4) removeuser(8)
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