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Newbie Linux Question

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richierich

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I've recently installed Red Hat 7.1 with KDE and so far its looks like its a great os. I have one problem, I can only login as root. I created a user during install and i tried editing my user so I have more permissions but it still won't login as that user, the kde login screen just blinks and then returns without logging in.

What do I have to do to get this to work?
 
You generally dont want to mess with user permissions in *nix. Users are limited as to what they can do for a very good reason. When you want to do something that requires root premission you should use su or configure and use sudo.

Try logging in as root and creating a new user using linuxconf. Use the default permissions and see if you can log in with that user. You can also delete the other user account through linuxconf as well.
 
What Ken said, but it sounds like you got the password wrong. Try as root: passwd user
And change the password for that user.
 
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