unable to login through GUI

[antonysunny]

Hi Friends,

Actually I am working as a System admin..My issue is when a user trying to login with a newly created login..its not logging in..but he is able to login with the root account and also other user accounts..but only 1 particular account is not getting looged in...What i did is just created a new login and copied the contents to that profile....Is there any fix for it...It seems to the bash profile got corrupted..Kindly reply?
Thank you

[Irithori]

You copied "the contents"?
Do you mean, you copied another home directory to this user´s home?

Then have a look at the uid of the copied files and directories, including the hidden ones.

[meton_magis]

most likely (I think it was hinted at by Irithori) your permissions are not right for the user trying to log in. try

chown -R USERID:USERID ~USERID

replacing USERID with that user's ID. this says, to change ownership recursively to the user, and groupid of USERID, to USERID's home directory (and all subfiles/directories.)

It's also wise to then do
chmod 700 ~USERID

unless you specificaly need other users to have access.

also an obvious DUH would be to change the user's password, make sure it is good.

[antonysunny]

Actually what i did was..i renamed the username..using
usermod -l newusername oldusername

then i used
mv oldusername newusername

..it was working..but i am not sure is this the right way

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