Problems Creating a User Account

[Scott Simontis]

James McKenzie wrote:

> Scott Simontis wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone:
>>
>> I just installed Fedora Core 3 a few days ago. During the first boot
>> configuration, I created a user account. When I attempted to log in, 
>> I found that
>> I could not use the account. I thought I made a mistake somewhere 
>> creating the
>> account, and logged in as root to see what the problem was. When I 
>> checked the
>> Users and Groups program, I found that nothing was listed.
>>
>> Looking around with google, just about the only thing I could find on 
>> the problem
>> was BugZilla Bug # 116391, although it deals with shadow passwords. I 
>> have been
>> unable to find any other information on the problem.
>>
>> Does anyone know what is stopping me from creating an account? Here 
>> is the output
>> of ls -l /etc/passwd:
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1441 Feb 23 19:33 /etc/passwd
>
>
> FC3 uses the /etc/shadow file (as do most current *nix's).  Check the 
> permissions of this file.  If this file has 644 (the same as 
> /etc/passwd) then take a close look at the Bugzilla entry.

I managed to fix it. I had to disable SE, and now everything works fine.

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Scott Simontis
ssimontis at spymac.com