On 2020-06-27 07:50, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 2020-06-26 19:29, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I think you mean....
>
> 1. Connected monitor and keyboard and booted to a command line login prompt.
> 2. Logged in as root
> 3. Used startx and got an xfce desktop
> 4. Created a new user using "useradd".
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Yes exactly as you say, But I have not logged out, I will try that since you suggest it.
It is almost supper time here so it may be some time before I get back to report the
result. Thanks,
OK....
Just a comment. If you didn't logout of the root account then what did you mean by
"they could not do anything".
> 5. Logged out of the xfce session and logged out of the root
account.
> 6. Tried to login as the user created in #4
>
> ?????
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