try logging in from the console to make sure that the account is working properly first. maybe the gui did something dumb and made the home directory not writable by the new user.
:wq! jason On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mark Holmquist <marktrac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe I'm insane, or doing something all wrong, but I am having twenty > kinds of problems making a new user on Ubuntu 9.10. > > I add the user in the GUI, then click "switch user" and try to login, > and the password won't work. > > I think the problem may have something to do with me using dvorak, but > I'm not sure how. I am absolutely sure that the passwords matched. > > I even tried changing the password with passwd, to no effect. > > If anyone knows what I did wrong, it would be great to have some help. > > -- > Mark Holmquist > Student, University of Redlands > marktrac...@gmail.com > 651.270.6285 > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
