Rick L. Mantooth wrote:
> Ivan,
> Missed most of the thread, but,
>
> Log in as root (assuming this works) and
> prompt# telnet localhost <cr>
>
> Login as one of the users. (can you?)
No.
> If not, look for a couple of things:
>
> prompt# grep username /etc/passwd
> username:2EI4ftvf8MEKc:505:505:username Name:/home/username:/bin/bash
>
OK.
> If your using shadow passwords:
> username:x:505:505:username Name:/home/username:/bin/bash
>
I do not use shadow passwords.
> prompt# grep username /etc/group
> username::505:username
>
OK.
> prompt# ls -ald /home/username
> drwxr-xr-x 34 username username 4096 Apr 19 13:02 /home/username
>
OK.
> login will check the password of "username" and go through /etc/passwd,
> /etc/shadow (if shadowed), /etc/group. Then after finding login
> permission "OK", will get the /home/username from /etc/passwd and the
> Shell to use also. In this case, (bash) the files,
> /home/username/.bash_profile and /home/username/.bashrc and
> /home/username/.login will be parsed
> and the username will be set up with a prompt or if xdm login,
> /home/username/.Xclients (maybe /home/username/.xsession) will be
> parsed if xdm is set up that way.
>
> In short, lots of files are read and acted upon before/when a user
> logs in.
>
> Permissions are a big part of those files also. A user has to be able to
> "read and execute" a file as in the /home/username example above. That
> is his/her "Home Directory".
>
The permissions are all OK.But the users do not log in.
I tried to make a user manually in the /etc/passwd file,
but it was not succesfully.
Is there an answer to this "X-File" problem?
Thanks!
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