Multiusers not working?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Multiusers not working?
started by: Marcux

Posted by Marcux on Dec. 06 2006,19:56

Hi all!
I installed DSL with support for multiusers.
I tried to add a user and login as that user, but it does not work.
What am I missing?
The only user I am able to login with is dsl, haven't tried root though..

Many thanks!

Marcus

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 06 2006,20:53

What did you do to add that user
and to log in?

Posted by Marcux on Dec. 06 2006,21:10

rightclick on desktop -> system -> addUser.
Restarted computer and when you get promted for user/password, entered my new user.
Marcus

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 06 2006,21:33

Just tried using that tool and seems to work... though I used su - newuser to test log in.

What kind of installation are you using? (if frugal, did you back up the users/passwords, etc.)

Posted by Marcux on Dec. 06 2006,21:58

I just typed "install" on the bootpromt whem booted from CD.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 06 2006,22:14

sure, what what did you choose in that menu?

Posted by roberts on Dec. 07 2006,01:52

I don't see any issue with the login with a new user.
Some cosmetic changes will be applied, ie., icons and Aterm.lnk default X&Y. But not any problem with the login.

Perhaps you are using spaces in the username or password, or maybe some other special character?

Posted by Marcux on Dec. 07 2006,15:54

At installation I choose yes when I was promted with if I wanted a multiuser system.

I'm from Sweden so yes we have a couple of strange letters like, å, ä, ö.
But as I know that they do not fall with in the first 128 characters of ascii, unicode, I usualy do not use them, and no not any other letters but a-z.
By the way, it just hit me, isn't there a maximum of characters for password? I used a quite long one, is that the problem? I'll try with a shorter like 5 characters.

Posted by Marcux on Dec. 07 2006,19:57

I solved it!
..... a big misstake by me!!!
I used a too long password.
With a shorter pw everything works fine!

Marcus

Posted by roberts on Dec. 07 2006,21:00

Thanks for the update.