Can't create a user!!!

crimson · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:40 am Post subject: Can't create a user!!!

This is odd! I've never had this problem before, but now I just created a user and as root tried: "su crimson". I get: Unable to cd to "/home/crimson" .

I also have made sure that permissions are OK, and that I actually CAN cd to it. I cannot log in as a regular user! Help!

spOOwn · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:56 am Post subject:

is /home/crimson dir created ???

berore creating a user, you must do this directory...

check it !!

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Perhaps SA3: Adding users can be helpful.

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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crimson · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 6:32 pm Post subject:

yes spoown the directory is created, I'm not an idiot! Like I said, I checked permissions and everything was fine. Would this have something to do with ext3 quotas? I enabled them in the kernel this time around.... Still that doesn't seem right.

crimson · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject:

I even emerged that superadduser program and had that create the user and directory for me. I still get that error!

Here are the permissions on the folder /home/crimson:

drwx--x--x 3 crimson wheel crimson

All of the files in the directory (except .. of course) have acceptable ownership.

WTF do I do?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

what is the output of the groups command for the user?
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crimson · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 6:53 pm Post subject:

audio users wheel . Also here is the output of trying to login from the actual console:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

What is the entry for the user in /etc/passwd ?
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crimson · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject:

ok in /etc/passwd I have

crimson:x:1000:10:Adam Knutson,,,:/home/crimson:/bin/bash

in /etc/passwd- I have

crimson:x:1000:10::/home/crimson:/bin/bash

this sucks.

crimson · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:24 am Post subject:

I tried re-emerging pam and that didn't help. I wonder if I should try starting from stage 3 again, because that worked last time.. Are there any packages I could re-emerge that might solve this?

Ethereal · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:56 pm Post subject:

Maybe you need to
#chown -R crimson /home/crimson
?

crimson · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:16 pm Post subject:

I wish it were that easy. Like I said before, the permissions on all of the files and directories are rwx for user crimson, group users

Ethereal · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 10:29 am Post subject:

Are you using PAM? Maybe that's the source of problems?

crimson · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 6:27 am Post subject:

I don't know exactly what the problem was. I just reinstalled gentoo again, and maybe it was a USE flag or something but it's working fine again.