Login Problems Ubunt 9.04

[nujinini]

Hello Everyone!

I am working on an old laptop (ubuntu 9.04) and I was trying to add a new user.

So I went to recovery mode and went to root and executed the following.

useradd truewisdom
passwd truewisdom

It looks like it was a success since I did not receive an error until I logged in.

I got the following:

Your home directory is listed as:'/home/truewisdom' but 
it does not appear to exist. Do you want to log in with 
the / (root) directory as your home directory? It is
unlikely anything will work unless you use a failsafe
session.

NO or YES

I cannot log in anymore.

May I please ask how can I make a user that would just let me use ubuntu 9.04 without these complications?

If possible, how can also change the format so that I do not have to give a password every time I use this. I mean that it would just be open for any other users anytime.

Thank you very much as usual!

[Lakshmipathi]

Hello Everyone!

I am working on an old laptop (ubuntu 9.04) and I was trying to add a new user.

So I went to recovery mode and went to root and executed the following.

useradd truewisdom
passwd truewisdom

It looks like it was a success since I did not receive an error until I logged in.

I got the following:

Your home directory is listed as:'/home/truewisdom' but 
it does not appear to exist. Do you want to log in with 
the / (root) directory as your home directory? It is
unlikely anything will work unless you use a failsafe
session.

NO or YES

I cannot log in anymore.

May I please ask how can I make a user that would just let me use ubuntu 9.04 without these complications?

If possible, how can also change the format so that I do not have to give a password every time I use this. I mean that it would just be open for any other users anytime.

pass -m option with useradd command ,man page says

-m, --create-home create home directory for the new user account

If possible, how can also change the format so that I do not have to give a password every time I use this. I mean that it would just be open for any other users anytime.

I don't understand this, Do you want to login to your account in your local machine without password ?

[nujinini]

I don't understand this, Do you want to login to your account in your local machine without password ?

Sorry about this. I mean, when I start the computer, I will immediately go into the desktop without having to put my user name and password. I think it is better for this computer since everybody will be using it anyway.

Thank you Lakshmipathi

[nujinini]

Hello again,

I was able to log in making a new user in the recovery mode as root using the '-m' as shown in manual.

Thank you very much!

I just have to figure how to change config that the username & password prompt is no longer needed.

Any help will be much appreciated.

[Lakshmipathi]

I googled out these two links
Autologin with mingetty LG #27
How to enable automatic login on Linux
disclaimer : I haven't tried them.

[nujinini]

disclaimer : I haven't tried them.

Hehehe )

Thank you! I will read and try to understand. And maybe give it a try.