[gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

[gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

[George Roberts]

As many of you are aware I have been fighting an issue with gdm,
currently I am at the point where I could not login to gdm using my
normal user account, but I can login using the root account.  I found
the same issue in the forums
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-358052-highlight-gdm.html.  I can
create new user accounts that work correctly (I can log in and get to
the gnome desktop).  However I have deleted my old normal user
account, after making a backup, then I  recreated the old account
using useradd -d /home/george -G
users,wheel,gdm,floppy,audio,cdrom,games,cdrw -m george.
Now when I attempt to login to that account I am getting cascading
errors and when I reach the "desktop" it is a black screen with
computer and trash as the only icons and not toolbars.  I can right
click on the desktop and get the normal menu to get out of that
account.  I have checked the permissions of both accounts
geo@george /home $ ls -l george
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop
geo@george /home $

geo@george /home $ ls -l geo
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop
geo@george /home $
so I know that is not the issue here.

My question now is am I missing something here or is my computer on
drugs and I need  to find work arounds to get the information from my
old account backups to this account?
Any thoughts or pointers on this will greatly appricietated.
Thanks in advance.

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RE: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

[Dave Nebinger]

> geo@george /home $ ls -l george
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop
> geo@george /home $
> 
> geo@george /home $ ls -l geo
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop
> geo@george /home $

Just to be on the safe side I'd try:

# chown -R geo:users /home/geo
# chown -R george:users /home/george

Just to ensure that the permissions are cascading down correctly.  The only
reason I'm suggesting this is that, by the sounds of things, you're trying
to recreate a new user using files from an old user.


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Re: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

[George Roberts]

On 7/25/05, Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@joat.com> wrote:
> > geo@george /home $ ls -l george
> > total 0
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop
> > geo@george /home $
> >
> > geo@george /home $ ls -l geo
> > total 0
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop
> > geo@george /home $
> 
> Just to be on the safe side I'd try:
> 
> # chown -R geo:users /home/geo
> # chown -R george:users /home/george
> 
> Just to ensure that the permissions are cascading down correctly.  The only
> reason I'm suggesting this is that, by the sounds of things, you're trying
> to recreate a new user using files from an old user.
> 
> 
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> 
> 
Actually I could not use the old files to recreate this account.
useradd -d /home/george -G
users,wheel,gdm,floppy,audio,cdrom,games,cdrw -m george.
Per the man page for useradd
       -d home_dir
              The new user will be created using home_dir as the value for the
              user's login directory. The default is to append the login  name
              to default_home and use that as the login directory name.
I could not recreate the account until I had renamed the old folder
(george 2, one of the backups I have).  Once I renamed the old folder,
I could recreate the account with that command line.

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