[nmglug] adding new user to Ubuntu

[MeanderingCode]

On Tue 05 Jun 2012 01:31:32 PM MDT, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> The guest shows up on the login screen and the password works fine.
> However login only last a few seconds and then back to the login
> screen. No declining of the password or anything. I've checked all the

Brian,

Did you find anything in the logs?  I would look in /var/log/auth.log, 
/var/log/gdm.log (or kdm.log), and others.  Try creating another user 
and see if it still happens, and try 'grep -rn guest /var/log' (replace 
"guest" with username) and see if you find anything.  the "-n" option 
will prefix matches with line numbers, which means you can then open 
the file, go to the line number, and see what else is around it.  Also, 
looking at the timestamps for your logins, you can look at other events 
in other log files for what else may have fired.  Unfortunately, 
timestamp formats differ between daemons/logs, and not all are "human 
readable", so doing this without log analysis software is not always 
easy.

Cheers,
Sean

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