user does not exist...

[switch10]

I just put /home in its own partition, everything works fine except "users and groups" does not list my name. See screen shot. I tried adding my user name, and /home/dave, it said that the name and /home/dave already exists. Why won't it show me then?

I've tried

useradd -G <groupname> dave

as well...


how do I get my name in this list???

thanks

dave.

[spiderbatdad]

if the /home/user directory exists...then something like this should work:

sudo useradd switch
chown -R switch:switch switch
sudo passwd switch

If your user name was switch.

[SoFl W]

I had trouble with this "moving your home partition" but this might help you:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1411215

[switch10]

if the /home/user directory exists...then something like this should work:

sudo useradd switch
chown -R switch:switch switch
sudo passwd switch

If your user name was switch.

I get 'user already exists' when I try to add the user again.

The ownership of all of the files, hidden and all, are dave:dave.

I had trouble with this "moving your home partition" but this might help you:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1411215

Thanks, but I've already successfully made a separate partition for my /home. Everything works fine, except that I cant add myself to groups. It might not even have anything to do with the fact that I have a separate /home partition.

Any other ideas?

[switch10]

any clues as to what would cause this anyone??

[falconindy]

Please post the output of the following:

grep dave /etc/passwd
groups dave
ls -l ~dave

[switch10]

dave:x:999:999:dave,,,:/home/dave:/bin/bash

dave : dave adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

total 144
-rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave    65 2010-03-05 17:18 backup_fstab.sh~
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-03-06 10:42 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave 60094 2010-03-06 10:32 bt4-final.iso
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-02-26 18:00 Calibre Library
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dave dave   373 2010-03-04 18:03 conky
drwxrwxrwx 5 dave dave  4096 2010-03-05 18:07 conky_colors
drwxr-xr-x 3 dave dave  4096 2010-03-06 18:27 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 5 dave dave  4096 2010-03-01 12:04 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 8 dave dave  4096 2010-02-27 11:37 Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave   167 2010-03-04 18:03 examples.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 5 dave dave  4096 2010-02-27 11:39 gtk-gnutella-downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 dave dave    78 2010-03-04 18:03 mar_3_2010
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-02-26 18:00 Music
drwxr-xr-x 5 dave dave  4096 2010-03-02 23:59 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-02-26 18:00 Podcasts
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-02-26 18:00 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-03-05 15:37 Scripts
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-02-26 18:00 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 4 dave dave  4096 2010-02-27 11:38 Test
drwxrwxr-x 7 dave dave  4096 2010-03-05 23:02 Ubuntu One
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-03-05 15:26 upgrade
drwxr-xr-x 2 dave dave  4096 2010-03-06 14:45 Videos

If this is not an easy fix, its OK. I may just do a reinstall. I had a slackware install in another partition that shared the /home. Every time I reboot Ubuntu, I have to restart x as well. Ever since I've been sharing my /home with slackware, I've had problems.

[falconindy]

Just for grins, create another user, and assign him UID 998 -- or anything else below 1000 that isn't taken. I bet that isn't displayed either. Then create a new user above UID 1000 and I'll bet that they are displayed.

Similar behavior is exhibited by GDM's login screen, wherein any user below UID 1000 will not be displayed, in order to keep things clean. The users & groups applet must be doing something similar, but making an exception for root (UID = 0).

[switch10]

hmm. I made a new user; Dave, and it assigned 1000 as UID. I wonder how mine got switched to 999?

Anyway I got it sorted now, thanks for the help.