On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:59, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> Hi there
>
> My son is returning home to live for a few months - so thought I
> would add him as new user. Used 'adduser' name
>
> There was no prompt for a password so did not do anything else.
> On the next free line I added the password, wondering if it was
> needed. Then exited konosle. Attempted to logon using the new
> name, but simply won't do it. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Rosemary
The new user probably is there OK. You can confirm it by looking
for his home directory, like this :
cd /home
ls
then you should se a directory with the new user's name.
However, you haven't set a password. To do this type (as root) :
passwd [username]
Now, exit your root console and type :
su [username]
give the new password, and you are done. The new user will get a
default desktop from /etc/skel, then he can start tweaking and
configuring, change his password and so on....
HTH
Kaj Haulrich.
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