RedHat - User Manager not working correctly?

Factual Questions
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Can anyone tell me what gives? I’m logged in as root. I go to user manager to create a person account for myself. I try to log in as my new entity, and it just returns the windows manager login to me. I try no password, and it says ‘bad password’ (or something like that).
Even though I entered a password, in the user manager there didn’t seem to be one encrypted in /etc/passwd. So I opened up a term window and entered passwd [username] and added a password to the new created name. Same problem. I can only login to Linux as the root. It’s also not creating a home directory for the new user, even though I have that box checked in the redhat user manager. Oh… one more thing I just remembered… when I originally noticed that my etc/passwd file didn’t have an encrypted password as i would have expected… and then I added one… the first password it wouldn’t accept because it wasn’t unique enough so it was rejected and I had to type in a new one… but the new one seemed to enter just fine.

any Help? Is this something where the window’s manager and the OS require their own password files?

E3

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Isn’t that how it goes? As soon as I post a Q, I try the KDM user Manager and everything seems to be working OK.

I would still appreciate any words of wisdom.

E3

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The Window manager and the OS do not have their own passwords. Is this a machine that is directly connected to the internet? Password/username issues can be a sign that you have been rooted. Otherwise, what are the perms on /etc/passwd? What if you create a totally new user from a terminal? (/usr/sbin/adduser {user})If you can do that, and add a password, then its user manager. Start with addusr from a command prompt.

A new password wont show in /etc/passwd since shadow passwords are enabled by default, IIRC. (I am not at my RedHat box)

Are you using Gnome, KDE or something else?

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OK preview is my friend, glad you got it. I’d check the RedHat user manager, looks like it may be confused.