Guy,

Thanks very much - I appreciate your help. Your instructions were very clear
and the solution worked first time with only two minor problems which were
easily fixed:

1. X would not start under the new user. This turned out to be a problem
with the /home/username/.ICEauthority file which was owned by root. A simple
change of ownership (via the root account - chown username:usergroup
.ICEAuthority) fixed this and,

2. Printer configuration would not work with an error in the Links browser
as follows:

Error: http://localhost:631 Permission denied.

Turns out that the CUPS server has to be running before configuration can be
done so I logged in as root and started CUPS (entered # cupsd) and was able
to start printer configuration. I will probably have to get this running at
boot for future use.

Otherwise all worked fine and I was even able to use sudo.

I think your instructions would be very useful on the d:b wiki as I think
there were a few other people with the same problem.

Thanks again,

Regards,

Manoj


>From: G_P <sayhi2guy@???>
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>To: dynebolic mailinglist <dynebolic@???>
>Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] having problems to log in as user
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:54:20 +0100
>
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>Manoj Keswani wrote:
> > -- snip --
> >
> > - On logging out and logging back in as the new user, I find that I
>cannot
> > adjust, let alone see the soundcard mixer controls. Same for the
>network.
> > When I try to adjust soundcard properties, I am asked for the admin
>password
> > which I give and this is rejected. So, I can't use any of the software
> > because I can't even access the basic controls. Hydrogen for example, is
> > unable to start any of the audio drivers (such as ALSA or OSS).
> >
> > If I try to add the newly created user to any existing groups (using
> > groupadd) such as audio, video or users, I get another error message
>saying
> > "invalid numberic argument: audio".
> >
> >
> > Manoj
> >
> >
>Hi
>
>This worked on dyne:bolic 2.4.2
>
>I managed to get the admin password dialogue to work by setting up
>sudo. All this needs to be done as root. After creating your user:
>
>1) create a group called admin with the command:
>
>groupadd admin
>
>2) edit your sudoers file with the command:
>
>visudo
>
>find the line where it says 'uncomment to allow all people in group
>wheel to run all commands'. Uncomment the line below (by deleting the
>#) Change 'wheel' to 'admin'. Save & exit.
>
>3) Edit the file /etc/group. Find the line for admin & add your user
>name (if there is more than one name separate them with commas (don't
>forget to add 'luther'!). I added my name to all the groups that luther
>was in (I think you need to join the audio group to get real time
>privileges & access the mixer)
>
>4) Exit X & then totally log out. Log back in again & startx
>
>After this your normal user password should work in the password dialog,
>like in Ubuntu. I have yet to test this for persistence. If it does
>not work, worst case scenario would be to save modified files and write
>a simple script that copies the relevant files back.
>
>Hope this helps. If any of the steps are not clear please ask & I will
>try & explain better.
>
>Guy
>
>
>
>
>
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