On 1/4/19 4:25 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 1/4/19 3:38 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
....
> 
> I tried typing my password into the user name line and got the expected
> characters. I copied and pasted it into the password line, but it didn't
> help.
> 
> I just tried logging in by ssh and had no trouble.

Then you are fine user and group wise.

> 
> While there I decided to try changing the owner of the html output of
> lshw I did earlier from root to rsteff. Here's the results:
> 
> root@ENU-2:/home/rsteff/Desktop# chown rsteff:rsteff hardware.html
> chown: invalid group: 'rsteff:rsteff'
> root@ENU-2:/home/rsteff/Desktop# groups
> root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel audio
> root@ENU-2:/home/rsteff/Desktop#

This is expected behavior.  Since you are logged in as root, "groups'
shows the groups for 'root' NOT 'rsteff'.  During install a group
'rsteff' is never created.

> 
> I'm guessing that not being able to log in from ENU-2's own keyboard is
> not related to bad passwords, since I can log in via ssh.
> 
> On ENU-1, my Ubuntu 18 machine, when I run groups, I see that my user,
> dick, has a group:
> 
> dick@ENU-1:~$ groups
> dick adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare vboxusers
> dick@ENU-1:~$
> 
> Somehow I don't have one on ENU-2, the Slackware machine, for rsteff.

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if you created user 'rsteff' via the "adduser" command, the groups
assigned (if you choose the full default) to that user will be:

users lp floppy audio video cdrom games plugdev power netdev scanner

group 'rsteff' is not created. You can do so and then use that group to
hide $HOME from other users that may log in.

-Ed

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