hey i´m newbie too, and i got the same prob, but i get arroud it:
1st i created a new user
2nd i log off
3rd in the text mode i did login in the the new user , put password
5th wirt startx and i was able to save user settings and run all programs...

hope it works with you

cheers from portugal

snare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Manoj K" <mkeswani@???>
To: "dynebolic mailinglist" <dynebolic@???>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] having problems to log in as user


>I have had the same problem and I submitted a similar e-mail to the mailing
> list about a month ago with no response. When adding users, I get a PAM
> authentication error. I was unable to get my new user account to be able
> to
> do anything useful in dyne. Only the root account would work properly.
>
> Something needs to be fixed in dyne with the adduser command but I am too
> new to Linux to work out what.
>
> Manoj
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "takhai mohamed" <brahmanprince11@???>
> To: <dynebolic@???>
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 2:23 AM
> Subject: [dyne:bolic] having problems to log in as user
>
>
>> hi, is rasyaw
>>
>> i 'm new to this , but i docked dyne and made a nest , adding users been
>> a
>> headache
>>
>> i have the version that's on the dynebolic website now
>>
>> a few times adding users would not go , have a user but can't login
>>
>> i tried adding a new one and it was going but i stopped because it said
>> there was an error although it was going , but i stopped cause i just
>> want
>> it to be right
>>
>> someone advised me to change the default runlevel in the file
>> /etc/inittab
>> to 4 or single user 1
>>
>> i noticed there is in dyne 0,1,2,3,6, are 4 and 5 there and what is best
>> advised to do
>>
>> i'll try again later , cause runnig as root is 'dangerous'
>> but i love this distro did something in cinelerra like have to
> 'fight/play'
>> some still recorded a reggae so it' cool
>>
>> myself i run ubuntu now , but for certain jobs i prefer dyne
>> sorry if this is to long and my questions sound stupid i'm a newbie
>>
>> rasyaw
>>
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