On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:19:38 -0600, josh at joshwelch.com <josh at joshwelch.com> wrote: > To clarify, it's not putty preventing you from accessing the box, it's something > on your box itself most likely. Right on - I was going to say the same thing. I've been using PuTTY for years, and I've never had an instance where PuTTY was causing the problem. > When you are creating new users, how are you doing it? What is the distribution? > If I recall correctly useradd on some distro's will not assign a shell, thus > when you try and connect there is no environment for you to go into. Make sure > you have /bin/bash or something similar for your users shell. > usermod -s /bin/bash $USER Also, some distros' useradd script (Gentoo in particular) don't create the home directory, so you have to use "useradd -m <username>". -Erik _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list