Unable To Create Additonal User

General system Newbie
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Hi Friends,

My Acer borked with the last EOS update and made the laptop go to the BIOS password.

Sadly, the password slipped my mind and I am permanently locked out. :frowning:

The good news is that I was donated a pre-owned Dell Inspiron 15 and of course, installed EOS.

Now the newest challenge is that I am unable to create an additional user account to work. I created an account and when I logged into that account, the screen goes black and then I am back on the sign-on screen.

Halp. :sos:

P.S. Bonus question: What is the easiest way to verify the checksum of a ISO file? I downloaded and installed the newest ISO for EOS yet I didn’t have time to verify the checksum. I know, I know…bad Ro-Ro…

P.S.S. Now that I have installed the latest ISO, is there anyway to verify that the OS is legit?

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How did you create the account?

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Per the instructions below:

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very detailed… tutorial .
sudo useradd -m -G wheel rfkill sys -s /bin/bash username
(this is what is used on initial install)
followed by:
sudo passwd username

should work in any case…

verify ISO:

sha512sum -c EndeavourOS_Cassini_22_12.iso.sha512sum needs EndeavourOS_Cassini_22_12.iso.sha512sum and EndeavourOS_Cassini_22_12.iso in the same folder where you run the command.

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Those aren’t really instructions. It is just a bunch of commands.

My guess is that you either didn’t create a home directory or your user didn’t have rights to the home directory.

I usually add users with:

sudo useradd -m -G wheel username
sudo passwd username
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why follow random post on web :thinking:

Arch wiki be 1st place look it cover most thing.

" https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_and_groups "

i wish you well on new Dell :+1:

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as /etc/default/useradd (defaults) do not have -m set per default I bet you created user without home directory… so it can not load a Desktop (needs this for config files)