Problem adding new user...

[Paul Howarth]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:49 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> [jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ login
>>> login: freddy
>>> Password:
>>> Login incorrect
>>>
>>>
>>> login:
>>>
>>> I used the same password that worked with su -
>>
>>
>> ----
>> then clearly your issue isn't with /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow but is
>> with 'login' command itself which I have never used and a quick perusal
>> of 'man login' tells me that there are circumstances which may affect
>> login ability.
> 
> 
> Ok, I guess it's finally time for me to learn how to use bugzilla.
> Something is either wrong with bash, with PAM, or with login.
> 
> I can't use login to log in as myself.

Have you tried using authconfig to reset everything (e.g. auth 
mechanisms) to the way you want it?

Paul.