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hudsonhauck
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 4:39 am    Post subject: creating new users Reply with quote

Whenever I try to add a new user, say for example:
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useradd -p asdf johnDoe

, then I try to login as johnDoe, it tells me "Login Failed". I have tried changing the group, changing the password to make sure I got it right, changing every "usermod" I could and it never would let me log in!! What the hell!!
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 5:53 am    Post subject: adduser Reply with quote

simply type:
#groupadd [group name]
#adduser_command -g [group you've entered] -s /bin/bash -d /home/[user] -m

There are more options...
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I can log into my other accounts now, but which groups should they be in? Right now, with no group specified, I can't even go into my ~/.fluxbox folder to edit the default menubar that has only xterm, restart, and exit.
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 6:20 am    Post subject: groups Reply with quote

you should make a group named as username [ not a must ]
For example:
to be able to connect as SU ( supper user ) your user must be in "wheel" group.
mine looks like that:
i made my own group:
#groupadd liviu
#useradd -g liviu -d /home/liviu -s /bin/bash liviu -m

Here i was added an user named "liviu" in group "liviu"
Then i added this user to group wheel too:
#man groupmod
( i don't remmember the command because i'm in win now )
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 6:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Right now, with no group specified, I can't even go into my ~/.fluxbox folder to edit the default menubar that has only xterm, restart, and exit.


I did not understand
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My user privelages are really messed up. I have a user named matt. matt is in wheel group. matt cannot create any files even in his own directory!! Why???
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

login as root and enter in matt home dir.
run there ls -la and make sure the owner is mat:

1) #ls -la /home
2) #ls -la /home/matt

If matt is not owner then make changes:
#chown matt:matt file_name_here
and so on....
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope, the /home/matt folder belongs to "users" as to matt's files
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

this should fix your problem
Code:
$> usermod -g users -G wheel,audio,video,... -s /bin/bash -d /home/matt matt
$> chmod -R matt.users /home/matt


look at -g and -G: with -g you specifie the primary group, with -G additional groups the user should belong to, so replace the ellipsis with whatever is needed.
If this doesn't fix your problem, you should post the output of
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$> ls -la /home/matt
$> grep matt /etc/passwd

to give us a clue on whats going wrong

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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got it. Even though /home/matt was owned by users, /home was still owned by the root (i don't know why). After I chown :users /home, everything worked fine. Thanks guys for your help. (I didn't understand the diff between -g and -G, but now, I do)
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hudsonhauck wrote:
I got it. Even though /home/matt was owned by users, /home was still owned by the root (i don't know why). After I chown :users /home, everything worked fine.

This may solve your problem, but it's wrong: /home should belong to root.root, /home/matt should belong to matt.users and the permissions should look like this:
Code:

$> ls -l /home
total 4
 drwxr-xr-x   59 matt      users        4096 May 20 21:30 matt


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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I didn't know that. I changed /home back to root.root. then i did what you told me to do 3 posts back and I got this:
Code:
 bash-2.05a# chmod -R matt.users /home/matt
chmod: invalid mode string: `matt.users'

Here is the othere stuff you wanted.
Code:
 bash-2.05a# ls -la /home/matt
total 416
drwxr-xr-x    5 matt     users        4096 May 20 13:05 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 May 19 20:38 ..
-rw-------    1 matt     users           0 May 20 13:05 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--    1 222      users         438 May 19 20:16 ._cfg0000_.bash_profile
-rw-r--r--    1 222      users         397 May 19 20:16 ._cfg0000_.bashrc
-rw-------    1 matt     users        1397 May 20 13:05 .bash_history
drwx------    2 matt     users        4096 May 20 12:27 .fluxbox
drwxr-xr-x    4 matt     users        4096 May 20 12:28 .mozilla
-rw-r--r--    1 matt     users           5 May 20 12:54 .wmix.pidq?
-rw-r--r--    1 matt     users         123 May 20 12:27 .xinitrc
drwxr-xr-x    4 matt     users        4096 May 20 12:46 .xmms
-rw-------    1 root     root       378334 May 19 23:10 hotkeys_0.5.4.tar.gz

and
Code:
 bash-2.05a# grep matt /etc/passwd
matt:x:1000:100::/home/matt:bin/bash

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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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hudsonhauck wrote:
Ok, I didn't know that. I changed /home back to root.root. then i did what you told me to do 3 posts back and I got this:
Code:
 bash-2.05a# chmod -R matt.users /home/matt
chmod: invalid mode string: `matt.users'


Ooooops, my fault, chmod should read chown (just to make sure everything in your home-dir belongs to the user matt)
hudsonhauck wrote:

Here is the othere stuff you wanted.
Code:
 bash-2.05a# ls -la /home/matt
total 416
drwxr-xr-x    5 matt     users        4096 May 20 13:05 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 May 19 20:38 ..
-rw-------    1 matt     users           0 May 20 13:05 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--    1 222      users         438 May 19 20:16 ._cfg0000_.bash_profile
-rw-r--r--    1 222      users         397 May 19 20:16 ._cfg0000_.bashrc
-rw-------    1 matt     users        1397 May 20 13:05 .bash_history
drwx------    2 matt     users        4096 May 20 12:27 .fluxbox
drwxr-xr-x    4 matt     users        4096 May 20 12:28 .mozilla
-rw-r--r--    1 matt     users           5 May 20 12:54 .wmix.pidq?
-rw-r--r--    1 matt     users         123 May 20 12:27 .xinitrc
drwxr-xr-x    4 matt     users        4096 May 20 12:46 .xmms
-rw-------    1 root     root       378334 May 19 23:10 hotkeys_0.5.4.tar.gz

and
Code:
 bash-2.05a# grep matt /etc/passwd
matt:x:1000:100::/home/matt:bin/bash


the last line is a problem, the shell entry "bin/bash" should read "/bin/bash", a typo?

beside this I'm out of luck: your home dir is yours, a shell entry is there (you can correct it with "usermod -s /bin/bash matt"), this output allowed me to just check the basic possible errors :-(

besides that: there is a file that belongs to root.root in matts home-dir; you should never work as root, perform just the absolutly necessary steps as root!

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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2002 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool, that works now. It must have been that one root file in there then, I guess. The reason I was working as root was becuase I couldn't do anything as matt. Thanks for the help.
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