On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 22:32, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:59, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Hi there > > > > My son is returning home to live for a few months - so thought I > > would add him as new user. Used 'adduser' name > > > > There was no prompt for a password so did not do anything else. > > On the next free line I added the password, wondering if it was > > needed. Then exited konosle. Attempted to logon using the new > > name, but simply won't do it. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks > > Rosemary > > The new user probably is there OK. You can confirm it by looking > for his home directory, like this : > > cd /home > ls > > then you should se a directory with the new user's name. > However, you haven't set a password. To do this type (as root) : > > passwd [username] > > Now, exit your root console and type : > > su [username] > > give the new password, and you are done. The new user will get a > default desktop from /etc/skel, then he can start tweaking and > configuring, change his password and so on.... > > HTH > > Kaj Haulrich.
Thanks to all who replied to this. Problem now fixed :-). Thanks Rosemary
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