user accounts missing?

[Ray Garza]

On Thursday 07 June 2007 04:01:04 pm Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007, Ray Garza wrote:
> > - I go to system --> adminstraitor --> users & groups and create an
> > account. - I close the application.
> > - I go back to Users and Groups and the account I just created is gone.
> > The only accounts are root and the one that I created during
> > installation.
> >
> > I go to the /home folder and the account I created is not listed.
> >
> > /home folder attributes is set to 755.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> 1. Start a terminal
> 2. Run:
> 	gksudo users-admin
> 3. Try doing it again, watch for errors printed to the command line.
> 4. Look in the following files for errors:
> 	- /var/log/syslog
> 	- /var/log/messages
> 	- /var/log/auth.log
>
> Gavin

Ok, I figured it out. I was giving a cheapo password for the account. I redid 
the adding with a strong password and this time the account stuck. Seems like 
it should have given me a warning that the password was weak to begin with. 
Probably a setting somewhere.

Ray