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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
# 2  
Old 01-13-2014
Dont know but for sure a 740 permission makes no sence on a directory... and if this is the case on /home I am not suprised you cannot connect...
You need the execute permission on directoy to traverse it...
# 3  
Old 01-13-2014
Possibly it's permission issue,

check out .ICEauthority or .Xauthority in home directory

1. login using ALT+CTRL+F1

2. Enter USERNAME and PASSWORD

3. ls -la .ICEauthority OR ls -la .Xauthority

4. if these files are owned by you, then fine or else if its owned by root, then change permission like below
sudo chown username:username .ICEauthority OR .Xauthority

5. Switch back using ALT+CTRL+F7 OR F8, and try to relogin
This User Gave Thanks to Akshay Hegde For This Post:
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# 4  
Old 01-15-2014
Sorry to say that the problem persists. Permissions and ownership are all correct. I followed all your instructions.
 
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