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8weight

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Registered: 2020-08-11

Posts: 5

Failed to execute login command

I'm running Slitaz Rolling in VirtualBox with Linux host. I have tried adding a user both from the command line and the panel but no matter what I try I get the "failed to execute login command" error. The only user that I can login with is root. That's not terrible, but WTF? I deleted user tux and I can't even bring that one back. Still when I boot Slitaz  the prompt at the GUI login is tux. How can I change that?

abultm

Member

Registered: 2022-04-21

Posts: 1

Re: Failed to execute login command

I am running Slitaz32 as well in VirtualBox on a Linux host. I did create a different user on installing Slitaz5 and that user works.  Then I tried to create a user thru the Slitaz Panel and the panel creates the user but when I try and login as the new user, I get the same error message as per the above post.  Now I suspect it is config issue that a certain file is not created the same way the install process creates a user different then tux.  Wonderful distro to work with; I wish I could help more that just giving, hopefully useful, feedback.

Filou

Moderator

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 256

Re: Failed to execute login command

Repeatedly I experienced this error message and could fix it by simply changing ownership for the whole [user] home directory as root:

' chown -R [user].[user] /home/[usr] '

Though I didn't search for the cause, maybe this might fix the symptom?

gibor

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Registered: 2011-04-30

Posts: 1,067

Re: Failed to execute login command

I only encountered this fault once, and that was because the /etc/skel directory was incomplete...

Then I just had to copy and rename the root folder as the base to skel.

Hi Filou ;-)