Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-22 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 06:25:22PM +, message wrote: > Readers, > > A previously existing /home directory was mounted into the file > system during the installation process; this directory contained > files in a directory 'a'. > > A user was created from the root user account: > > useradd -M

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-20 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 19 Mar 2014 20:04:27 message wrote: > On 2014-03-18 13:01, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > > -- > > > > Message: 7 > > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:30:34 +0100 > > From: Ralf Mardorf > > Subject: R

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-19 Thread message
On 2014-03-18 13:01, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: -- Message: 7 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:30:34 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf Subject: Re: [arch-general] user management error You can't login as user, you log in as root. There seems to be a se

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 19:28 +, message wrote: > > If the directory isn't being mounted, can you please post the contents > > of /etc/fstab ? > > > > There are two entries: > > /dev/sda... uuid=... / ext4 > /dev/sad... uuid=... /home ext4 UUID= LABEL= /dev/ You sh

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-19 Thread message
On 2014-03-18 13:01, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: -- Message: 6 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:53:08 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf Subject: Re: [arch-general] user management error I don't understand you. "su" isn't recognised, but you su to

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 20:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 19:28 +, message wrote: > > > If the directory isn't being mounted, can you please post the contents > > > of /etc/fstab ? > > > > > > > There are two entries: > > > > /dev/sda... uuid=... / ext4 > > /dev/sad...

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-19 Thread message
On 2014-03-17 22:59, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:50:19 -0400 From: Gerald Stuhrberg Subject: Re: [arch-general] user management error If the directory isn't being mounted, can you please post the content

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 10:28 +, message wrote: > No, the system does not start as root. You can't login as user, you log in as root. There seems to be a serious language barrier between you and the Arch community. On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 10:41 +, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > If that's no

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 10:28 +, message wrote: > No, the system does not start as root. > After many reboots, am unable to sign-in directly as normal user 'a'. > Have to sign in as 'root' (command 'su' not recognised), then change > to 'a' using 'su a'. Access to /home directory 'a' (/home/a) i

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-18 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 18 Mar 2014 10:28:05 message wrote: > No, the system does not start as root. > > After many reboots, am unable to sign-in directly as normal user 'a'. > Have to sign in as 'root' (command 'su' not recognised), then change to > 'a' using 'su a'. Access to /home directory 'a' (/home/a) is

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-17 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 17 mrt. 2014 19:25 schreef "message" het volgende: > > Readers, > > A previously existing /home directory was mounted into the file system during the installation process; this directory contained files in a directory 'a'. > > A user was created from the root user account: > > useradd -M -p [pa

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/17/2014 02:50 PM, Gerald Stuhrberg wrote: > Hello, > > /etc/passwd does not store the password, a hashed version of the password > is stored in /etc/shadow > > If the directory isn't being mounted, can you please post the contents of > /etc/f

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-17 Thread Gerald Stuhrberg
Hello, /etc/passwd does not store the password, a hashed version of the password is stored in /etc/shadow If the directory isn't being mounted, can you please post the contents of /etc/fstab ? You can also check dmesg and journalctl to see if you have messages relating to the mounting of the /ho

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-17 Thread Jakub Klinkovský
On 17.03.14 at 18:25, message wrote: > Readers, > > A previously existing /home directory was mounted into the file system > during the installation process; this directory contained files in a > directory 'a'. > > A user was created from the root user account: > > useradd -M -p [password] -s /b

[arch-general] user management error

2014-03-17 Thread message
Readers, A previously existing /home directory was mounted into the file system during the installation process; this directory contained files in a directory 'a'. A user was created from the root user account: useradd -M -p [password] -s /bin/bash [username'a'] After reboot, the system is