Easy one I hope. LMDE5, trying to add a user. According to various sites I checked, it’s easy enough, go to control panel, users and groups, click on add, and fill in the details, and bob’s your uncle… Except that it didn’t work, still just the one user on the log in screen. Tried giving the new user the same permissions as the current one, no dice, have also rebooted, and nothing. So, either I missed something, or the system isn’t behaving, but either way, I could use a hand with this, thanks.

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Can you share the lines from /etc/passwd for your user and the user your adding? Despite its name, there are no passwords here, that is in /etc/shadow

    Edit: can you su to login as the user?

    • Mx Phibb@reddthat.comOP
      3·
      2 days ago

      How do I pull those up? Yep, I’m one of those, used the GUI as I don’t know how to do it from the terminal, plus I’m immensely forgetful

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
        3·
        1 day ago

        /etc/passwd: you may be able to get to this from the GUI file manager.

        If not, open a terminal and type: cat /etc/passwd. Copy the relevant lines.

        To test the login, from a terminal, type su otheruser, replace otheruser with the username from /etc/passwd. It should ask for a password, put that in and it should log you in. Type whoami and make sure its the same username as you expected. Paste any errors here.