>       Thanks to everyone for all help so far, I now have red hat installed and just
> started X with no problems a wee while ago, hurrah!
>       Anyways, I used the X User manager program from the control panel to add three
> users to the system. I entered the name, password, real name and the home and
> shell locations were set properly. The first time I did this the group ID was
> 500. I saved then logged out, tuened off the computer and rebooted. I tried
> logging in as the new users but it just said login incorrect.
>       I then removed the users and added again, this time making the group Id 100
> since there was a group with that ID already that called users. Again I saved
> and rebooted to no avail.
>       Does anyone know what if anything I'm doing wrong and how to fix it?


Afer you add the users, take a look under /home.  Are there
directories with the names of the users?  Also, check for user
enteries under /etc/passwords (I think that's the file, might also
be password, no "s").

As for the second question, you may want to look-up xdm.

Bryan Scaringe






>       
>       Also, can someone please either advise me or point me to a good resource on
> setting up the system so that when myself and my wife login X automatically
> starts?
>       
>       Thanks so much,
>       Dom  
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