I finally figured it out, as I was trying to do some testing with the new 
install - the keyboard is set to a German layout, but only in X!   The 
password for my first user contained a character that was moved on the German 
layout, but of course I didn't see it, because it doesn't echo in that mode!  
Sehr interessant ....

Vaughn


On Friday 07 November 2003 00:18, you wrote:
> Who owns /home/vaughn? Does vaughn:vaughn own /home/vaughn and all its
> files recursively? Also, what are /home/vaughn's perms?
> Always check the attributes/permissions first.
>
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:34, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > Thought I'd update you guys, in case someone else should stumble upon
> > this problem.
> > Having no luck on this, I decided just to create another user.   I did
> > groupadd, useradd, passwd, and created the home direc, but I didn't copy
> > in any config files.  The graphical login succeeded on this one!  Then I
> > thought I must have screwed up copying those files from the /root
> > directory - so I deleted them in the original "/home/vaughn" directory
> > and tried again.  Still won't log in!  It's no longer an urgent problem,
> > just a puzzling one: why did it work in one case and not the other? 
> > Also, I checked the kdmrc file and discovered that there is indeed an
> > option to prevent root from logging in graphically - which is what I
> > figured had happened - but it wasn't set!  So there was some other funny
> > stuff going on around here.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vaughn
> >
> > On Thursday 06 November 2003 15:51, you wrote:
> > > Hello all...
> > > I'm just a mass of problems this week.   The old hard drive on my SuSE
> > > system died, and I'm trying to bring it up on another system.  This
> > > time for some reason it didn't prompt me to add a user.  It come up
> > > with the graphical login, and not having created a user, I tried to log
> > > in as root - wouldn't allow it.  So I did ctrl-alt-F2 and logged in as
> > > root in text mode.    I added the group "vaughn" and the user "vaughn"
> > > and the directory /home/vaughn.  I also did a password for my new user,
> > > and verified that there was a shell set there (thanks, Hans.)  Then I
> > > copied the directories from /etc/skel and the config files from the
> > > .root directory.  So it looks like I have a viable home directory.  I
> > > logged out and tested logging in as "vaughn" in text mode; it worked. 
> > > Then I did ctrl-alt-F7 to get back to the graphical login.  I entered
> > > "vaughn" and my password; the response is "Login Failed." I supposed
> > > there must be a security setting somewhere that's prohibiting my login,
> > > but I'm not sure where it would be.  I looked in /var/log for the
> > > authentication log, to look for my login failure in hopes of seeing
> > > exactly what the problem was, but there was no such file, and I
> > > couldn't find any messages related to a failed X login.  Can anyone
> > > point me in the right direction?
> > >
> > > Thanks again,
> > > Vaughn Treude
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