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
I hope somebody has had this problem before - it is most frustrating!!
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...
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
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hi all, i m tryin to create a new account on the unix work station. do i use 'useradd' command? can u guyz advice on the usage of 'useradd' command as it can comes with 'useradd -D' or 'useradd -e'
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