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Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - bjames - 04-16-2019

Im running IRIX 6.5.28 on the o2.  When I setup a new user account weather i use the System User Manager or the Alias user account setup icon, when I try to log into the new user account, the screen goes green for a few seconds then sends me back to the main user Login Screen.  Im not doing anything different from how I setup user accounts on my indy and Octane.  Any suggestions?

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - Jacques - 04-16-2019

Have you logged in as root and checked the logs for anything out of the ordinary?

I usually have to battle with FAM once I set up an O2, it's usually down to some weird inetd.conf issues.

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - eudatux23 - 04-16-2019

Everything set to default, especially the shell? Hm weird, I would also recommend taking a look at the logs

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - bjames - 04-16-2019

What command do I use to open the log?

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I figured it out.

There are multiple errors from today that read “my unqualified host name IRIS1 unknown; sleeping for retry

And

7nable to qualify my own host name IRIS1 ... using short name

Then finally:
Nonque syserr(root) /etc/mail/Submit.cf..........  unknown user sgimsp.

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Another strange thing..  I went into the login screen options and found found a user account that was hidden called “lp”.  I configured the user “Lp” to be visible at the login screen.  Log out, then try to log in as lp and I still get the green screen and boots me back to the login screen.  The strange thing is if I go into he user manager, the usr ip does not show up, so I can’t even delete the user.  I’m logged i as root.

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - Jacques - 04-17-2019

'lp' is a standard user installed by the system, it owns the files in /var/spool/lp. You can disable it, but probably best not to delete it.

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - bjames - 04-17-2019

Interesting.... thanks

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - lintweaker - 08-18-2019

I am facing similar problems as the topic poster. I've created a user via the System Manager. When trying to login with the new user from the login screen I get the same green screen and then back to the login screen.

/var/adm/SYSLOG shows:
... Xsession: <user>: login
... Xsession: <user>: user "user": cannot chdir to home "/usr/people/<user>" (err 13), using "/"
....Xsession: <user>: Session "var/X11/xdm/Xsession: execution failed (err 13)
....Xsession: <user>: logout

Where <user> is the user I created.

Access rights on /usr/people are:
700 root : sys

And the user directory itself is set to:

755 <user> user

Does this seem okay?

doing a ' su - <user>' as root gives 'no shell' error

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - dexter1 - 08-18-2019

Quote:Xsession: <user>: user "user": cannot chdir to home "/usr/people/<user>" (err 13), using "/"

Error 13 is Access Denied, see /usr/include/sys/errno.h

Quote:Access rights on /usr/people are:
700 root : sys

That can't be good. This is what i have:


So all these are permission 0755.
Your permissions for /usr/people seem to be wrong. Permissions of nested subdirs like /usr/people/<user> are affected by permission settings of higher directories, so try as root:

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - lintweaker - 08-18-2019

Quote:

Code:

chmod go+rx /usr
chmod go+rx /usr/people

Thanks, tried that. Somehow did not work:

Any ideas?

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RE: Problems setting new user accounts on O2 - dexter1 - 08-18-2019

Quote:Aug 18 20:18:59 3B:IRIS1 Xsession: kramer: Session "/var/X11/xdm/Xsession" execution failed (err 13)

Same problem. You cannot access the Xsession script. BTW, the tfxd logs is from teleffect which is a service for sharing keyboard and mouse between several windows and IRIX systems. It's superseded by Synergy and VNC/rdesktop-like services.

I'm starting to think the IRIX system installation is incomplete or it has been altered by someone. Can you check for access to the Xsession file via:

If not, i would like to see the output of

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