New user cannot login

Question

I created a new user. Added all the groups that the "pi" user belonged to. When I try to login with that user, it just keeps recycling back to the login.

If I login with the user "pi", I can su to the user with the same password.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

First, delete the user created.

Next, I type $ groups pi to check the group's user pi belong. Then I create a new user with the command

$ useradd -m -G [groups from user pi except for pi and sudo] username.

The -m option creates a home directory and -G [groups] option adds the user to those groups. Set up a password to the new user with

$ sudo passwd username.

After that, log out and log in to the new user account. You can find more specific steps on this website.

Answer 2

I had the same problem:

1. check if the home folder has been created (it was missing)

2. check the passwd file sudo nano /etc/passwd (the bash was missing)

there should be a line like this:

paolo:x:1001:1001::/home/paolo:/bin/bash

(my user is paolo)

Else try deleting and recreating the user, it worked for me!!

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

su on its own defaults to the root user. If you use su - username, then it will try to login to that user.