At 09:55 AM 7/13/00 PDT, Chris S wrote:
>i have just created a new user but when i log in i get these error messages:
>
>No direcory /home/cspielma!
>Logging in with home = "/". <-- i am guessing that it does this by
>default??
Yes. Though I can see one certain typo in what you transcribed ("direcory"
for "directory"), and I suspect two other departures from what you actually
saw (the ! and . at the ends of the lines). I can't be sure because my
version of login presents a message quite different from yours when I have a
missing home directory.
>bash: /home/cspielma/.bash_profile: Permission denied <-- is this because
>it wasn't able to log into the correct home directory??
>
Yes.
>but there is a directory /home/cspielma!! i don't know why it won't log
>into it.
Me either, except the vague understanding that you did something wrong.
1. How did you add the new user? If you used adduser or useradd, it's
probably fine.
2. Might there be a typo in "/home/cspielma"? Might you have entered, for
example, "/home/cspielma " (with a trailing space)? Or might the directory
name have been misspelled in the /etc/passwd entry (and you missed it in
transcribing the message for inclusion here)?
3. Might the permissions on /home or /home/cspielma be incorrect?
4. Am I making the wrong assumption in thinking the !'s are your editorial
additions and not part of the directory names? If I am, please note that
"/home/cspielma!!" is not the same as "/home/cspielma!"
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------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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