On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:10:45 +0000, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > Pardon, but I'm not clear on this command, apparently. Coming from > fedora, I could just create a user, change the password, login, and > everything would be set. However, gentoo doesn't create > /home/user_name ?
Use the -m/--create-home option. > No problem, I created that directory. However, > "startx" as that user gives errors. Did you create the directory as root? If so, did you do "chown user: ~user" afterwards? If not, the user would not be able to write to the home directory, resulting in the errors you describe. -- Neil Bothwick Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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