Ivan,
Missed most of the thread, but,
Log in as root (assuming this works) and
prompt# telnet localhost <cr>
Login as one of the users. (can you?)
If not, look for a couple of things:
prompt# grep username /etc/passwd
username:2EI4ftvf8MEKc:505:505:username Name:/home/username:/bin/bash
If your using shadow passwords:
username:x:505:505:username Name:/home/username:/bin/bash
prompt# grep username /etc/group
username::505:username
prompt# ls -ald /home/username
drwxr-xr-x 34 username username 4096 Apr 19 13:02 /home/username
login will check the password of "username" and go through /etc/passwd,
/etc/shadow (if shadowed), /etc/group. Then after finding login
permission "OK", will get the /home/username from /etc/passwd and the
Shell to use also. In this case, (bash) the files,
/home/username/.bash_profile and /home/username/.bashrc and
/home/username/.login will be parsed
and the username will be set up with a prompt or if xdm login,
/home/username/.Xclients (maybe /home/username/.xsession) will be
parsed if xdm is set up that way.
In short, lots of files are read and acted upon before/when a user
logs in.
Permissions are a big part of those files also. A user has to be able to
"read and execute" a file as in the /home/username example above. That
is his/her "Home Directory".
If users can log in from telnet but not from xdm, and IF you can,
change your runlevel to "runlevel 3"
This is in /etc/inittab
id:5:initdefault:
# id:3:initdefault:
Runlevel 3 does not present the xdm login, so when you log in at
the console, you can type "startx" to go into X.
Track you trouble down 1 step at a time.
Get a shell prompt first. Then work your way up into X.
There's lots more involved, but these are the basics.
Good Luck,
Rick
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, ivan jose wrote:
>
> I followed all the suggestions I
> received, but all the users that
> I creat can not log in my machine.
> Whenever I try to enter as a user
> the X simply restart and in the
> prompt mode appears briefly the
> message: "not directory /home/<username>".
> What can I do? Please someone answer me.
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> ==
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