Have you messed with system-config-authenction or authconfig... you can see what your system is referencing in /etc/nsswitch.conf Sounds like you are going to want it to be referencing ¨files¨ first. Sorry if this is redundant. I am sorta jumping in the middle, having just signed up to the list. Chris Smith Sr. Systems Administrator API Group Inc. On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:21 -0600, Geoffrey R. Thompson wrote: > Josh Welch wrote: > > > > To clarify, it's not putty preventing you from accessing the box, it's > > something > > on your box itself most likely. > > > - Yep - I think so, too - just don't know what - yet. :) > > > When you are creating new users, how are you doing it? What is the > > distribution? > > - Fedora Core 2 - I tried both useradd, but I saw one post calling it > Slackware, so I tried adduser, too. Neither worked, and both seemed to have > the same results (user added, group with same name added, /bin/bash for > shell). > > > If I recall correctly useradd on some distro's will not assign a shell, > > thus > > when you try and connect there is no environment for you to go into. Make > > sure > > you have /bin/bash or something similar for your users shell. > > usermod -s /bin/bash $USER > > - I saw that in my research, too - and tried it, but it didn't help. Mark > Kroska also suggested this, and suggested I try a finger on the user - the > shell is /bin/bash. > > He also suggested I look at /etc/default/useradd - and it has: > > GROUP=100 > HOME=/home > INACTIVE=-1 > EXPIRE= > SHELL=/bin/bash > SKEL=/etc/skel > > So, the shell looks good, right? After creating a user, I can do a su - > myuser - and use ls, cat, etc as that user. > > Also, I looked in /etc/group and GROUP 100 is users. > > Thanks for the help - any other thoughts? > > Geoff > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list