Thanks! I deleted the user, and then re-created it while ensuring that I'd put the correct home directory in the first time around. It now works fine.
Thanks again, Rob Yale -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Pollerman Sent: April 11, 2002 1:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linuxconf conundrum! On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:02:48 -0400 "rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm running RH 7.0, and I'm experiencing a perplexing problem. > > What I did was: > > 1) I created a new user in linuxconf called 'carolyn' > > 2) The main group is 'carolyn' > > 3) alternative group is 'mcclear' > > 4) home directory is '/var/www/html/www.mollyjohnson.com' > > 5) I exited from linuxconf after creating a new password > > 6) Ownership of the directories is 'carolyn.mcclear' > > 7) permissions on the directories are 755 > > What happens incorrectly is: > > If I try to 'su carolyn', the prompt I get is 'bash-2.04$' instead of > 'carolyn@athena /root$' > > Any ideas? When you add a newuser with useradd, it uses the /etc/skel to make the default /home/<newuser> setup. That means that each new user has a .bashrc and .bash-profile. There the user's name is exported with: export USERNAME BASH_ENV SHELL In linuxconf you just get to select /bin/bash at the shell. Check to see if she has a .bash_profile and what it reads. > > Please excuse my ignorance, but I'm self-taught in Linux. This summer > I'm going to take the RHCE courses, and when I'm done perhaps I'll be > able to help with answering dumb questions like this one! > Share what you know, learn what you don't. The only trhing "dumb" is not asking :) > Thanks in advance, > > Rob Yale > Regards, Tom _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
