It wasn't about passwords or permissions or directory permissions or any of the other user account files.
It turns out that it was mainly a problem of userdrake, the 'tool' I chose for the task. Man what a buggy peice of crap that is. It hosed my /etc/passwd and /etc/group files twice in a row. The tool just doesn't do what it is supposed to. I can add a user, yet no corresponding group shows up with the same name like it should. No problem, just add the group manually. Yay! Now look what happens, the user is in there, the group is in there, but the vital part, look at the id #'s. Notice how the group and user have the same id? Well, thats how it was supposed to be in the first place right? Sure it is. Well, lets test the account now. Su to the account, we'll use test for this. bash: /home/test (Permission denied) It doesn't matter at this point how many ways you chown, chgrp, or chmod those home dir files. The account simply will not work unless you remove it (entirely by hand since userdrake isn't capable) and readd the account another way. Once I gave up on the damn buggy gui tools that don't work and switched to cli, everything started to work. Only took me an extra 4 hours of figuring that out. I'm going to go pass out and die now. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
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