spookytj wrote
>I have installed Solaris 10 and have everything working fine except that I
>can't login as
>anyone but root. I have created other accounts and they work for the console,
>but not for
>the GUI. any Ideas? (I am new to Solaris)
I know of two linked reasons why User Gnome login fails:
1) the user does not have a home directory
The user entry in /etc/passwd must specify an existing directory
usually this is
/export/home/USERNAME in solaris.
2) The user does not own its home directory.
The user needs to own the home directory itself and all files
including
hidden files ( hidden files start with a dot ( .) and is shown with
ls -a )
Gnome does not start if the hidden files is not owned by the user .
to set the ownership on the users files do:
# cd /export/home
# chown -R USERNAME:GROUPNAME USERNAME
Do not perform this action unless you have first changed directory to
the directory immediately above the USERS directory, if you perform the chown
command from the wrong location you will screw up the whole system.
//Lars
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