Easy one I hope. LMDE5, trying to add a user. According to various sites I checked, it’s easy enough, go to control panel, users and groups, click on add, and fill in the details, and bob’s your uncle… Except that it didn’t work, still just the one user on the log in screen. Tried giving the new user the same permissions as the current one, no dice, have also rebooted, and nothing. So, either I missed something, or the system isn’t behaving, but either way, I could use a hand with this, thanks.
Users with an UID below 1000 are not shown in the user list on gdm (that’s the login manager you’re using?).
Can you share the lines from
/etc/passwd
for your user and the user your adding? Despite its name, there are no passwords here, that is in/etc/shadow
Edit: can you
su
to login as the user?How do I pull those up? Yep, I’m one of those, used the GUI as I don’t know how to do it from the terminal, plus I’m immensely forgetful
/etc/passwd
: you may be able to get to this from the GUI file manager.If not, open a terminal and type:
cat /etc/passwd
. Copy the relevant lines.To test the login, from a terminal, type
su otheruser
, replace otheruser with the username from/etc/passwd
. It should ask for a password, put that in and it should log you in. Typewhoami
and make sure its the same username as you expected. Paste any errors here.