Newbie Linux Question

[richierich]

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?

 

[KenCleanAirSystem]

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.

 

[n0cmonkey]

What Ken said, but it sounds like you got the password wrong. Try as root: passwd user
And change the password for that user.