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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:10:45 +0000, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: |
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> Pardon, but I'm not clear on this command, apparently. Coming from |
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> fedora, I could just create a user, change the password, login, and |
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> everything would be set. However, gentoo doesn't create |
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> /home/user_name ? |
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Use the -m/--create-home option. |
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> No problem, I created that directory. However, |
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> "startx" as that user gives errors. |
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Did you create the directory as root? If so, did you do |
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"chown user: ~user" afterwards? If not, the user would not be able to |
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write to the home directory, resulting in the errors you describe. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. |
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