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davismiles Offline

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Posted: June 18 2006,18:09

Hi!
I have got my DSL up and running.
I tried to add a new user by rightclicking, system, addUsers. I entered a username and a password for the user.
The user gets a folder in /home but if I try to log in as that user the system tells me that it is the wrong password.
I was logged in as root when I created the user.
Second question, do I have to exit the window enviroment and logout at the promt? Isn't there any logout in windowsystem?
A third question, where do I change my password if I want to do that?

Many thanks in advance
Marcus

ZoOp

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Posted: June 18 2006,18:33

Hi,
I'm just guessing here, because I'm not so familiar with added users, but maybe it can help you:

1. try to do it again (you can delete your new created user with the command userdel paul if new username was paul); I can't reproduce your error; adduser function right with the passwd I entered;

2. no gui login in DSL, so you have to startx at the prompt with appropriate username and passwd to run DSL in x for the right user;

3. in a shell as root: passwd dsl or passwd paul if you named your new user paul.

yours
z

ufly235

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Posted: June 20 2006,22:56

i tried those steps, added users and do the following but cannot start up.

select dsl from the boot menu
wait for the prompt to come up
type in "sudo su"
type in "login"
enter my username followed by password and it keeps erring
is this the proper login method?

i am quite confused

mikshaw

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Posted: June 21 2006,03:18

What prompt are you talking about? Bash prompt? If so, try sudo su - paul or if that doesn't work try su - paul.
The first one should work without needing a password, as far as I can tell.

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