unable to create new user acc.

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i m not able to create new user account to my new install of 11.2 don’t know whether it occured due to update problem or some installation failure.
when creation a new profile through yast it gives a warning sub-domain not started and quits
however a new user get added through cli but with no profile of its own. that user cant log into gui enviroment and when he/she logs through cli it automatically tranfers it profile to “/”(i.e root)
i m using kde4.3
thnx

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Did you use this approach: Open Yast → Security and Users → User and Group Management → Users Tab → Add

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no i ll check it
i used open yast -->add profile wizard and thats it

4

but whats wrong with my approach and why even cli is not working

5

Add Profile wizard is an App Armor configurator, it’s not for adding Linux users. The thing to use for adding Linux users is the User and Group Management configurator.

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last time(in 11.1) i successfully added the the profile through some simple commands
i ll try the yast way

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yes i checked it the accounts i added through cli are there
i added 2 accounts one of them is assigned the home as / on login(via cli) and other has no home

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can any thing be done without reinstallation of suse11.2?
just more info—on login via kde it says a “cant run startupconfig4 error code 3 and something wrong with installation”

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Better do a user inventory reconciliation. If possible, log on as a normal user but if not possible log on as root. Do these things and report back.

  1. Open Yast → Security and Users – User and Group Management. Under the “Users” Tab, who are the listed users?
  2. List the home directories with this command and report the results here:
ls -l /home
  1. Give the name/s of users where the KDE GUI logon works
  2. Give the name/s of users where the KDE login fails
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wormulove wrote:
> can any thing be done without reinstallation of suse11.2?
> just more info—on login via kde it says a “cant run startupconfig4
> error code 3 and something wrong with installation”

it sounds a lot like you have a bad install, maybe acorrupted install
disk…

  1. did you get your install image from
    http://software.opensuse.org/112/en ? (then where?)
  2. did you check the md5sum of the downloaded iso?
  3. burn the disk as slow as you can?
  4. use good media?
  5. do this http://tinyurl.com/yajm2aq before install attempt?

if you answered “no” (or “don’t know”) to any of those then see the
following cites, and if we can help further, please ask because we
want you to be successful:
http://en.opensuse.org/Download_Help
http://tinyurl.com/yhf65pv
http://tinyurl.com/ycly3eg

and, to create a new user from the command line use the command


adduser

it is fully documented in the manual, see:


man adduser

and, how-tos are abundant, see:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+add+user+adduser

–
palladium

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total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-27 02:43 de
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-13 15:28 dev
drwxr-xr-x 25 deve users 4096 2010-03-28 05:17 deve
drwxr-xr-x 39 devesh users 4096 2010-03-28 11:17 devesh
drwxr-xr-x 10 999 users 4096 2009-11-03 06:32 linux
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2010-03-13 13:21 lost+found

this is the output to ls -l /home
i was able to add a working user but only through yast it is–deve.
devesh– was made while installation rest of them are through cli and are unusable(don’t no abt linux , lost+found)
a strange thing above is that de,dev are root but those account were created later later on although by using su status e.g
useradd dev

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Can you please answer the other three questions I asked, numbers 1, 3 and 4. Plus here is one more question: What is the username that you are using for yourself

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ans1: users in Yast –> Security and Users – User and Group Management are
de
dec
dev
deve
devesh
ans3:working users are dec and devesh

devesh-- was made while installation

ans4:it fails for de,dev

those account were created later later on although by using su status e.g
useradd dev

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OK I see the full picture now. There’s no need to reinstall. Just log on as devesh and go into Yast Users & Groups module and delete all the users except devesh. Select to “delete home directory” too. Then you can start again re-adding new users.

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finished that yast is properly adding users thnx.
will check command line some other time