On Thursday 07 June 2007 04:01:04 pm Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007, Ray Garza wrote: > > - I go to system --> adminstraitor --> users & groups and create an > > account. - I close the application. > > - I go back to Users and Groups and the account I just created is gone. > > The only accounts are root and the one that I created during > > installation. > > > > I go to the /home folder and the account I created is not listed. > > > > /home folder attributes is set to 755. > > > > Any suggestions? > > 1. Start a terminal > 2. Run: > gksudo users-admin > 3. Try doing it again, watch for errors printed to the command line. > 4. Look in the following files for errors: > - /var/log/syslog > - /var/log/messages > - /var/log/auth.log > > Gavin
Ok, I figured it out. I was giving a cheapo password for the account. I redid the adding with a strong password and this time the account stuck. Seems like it should have given me a warning that the password was weak to begin with. Probably a setting somewhere. Ray -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
