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. --- 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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