when adding a user from CL it does not appear in GUI every time why?
When entering a user from the root user in command line it does not show up in the GUI list as it should. I am using the command of adduser. Sometimes it pops up in the GUI other times it does not. Any suggestions as to why this happens. Also, we are using Fedora 19. This is a classroom lab project.
The first thing I’d check is
/etc/passwd. What does the line for the newly created user look like? (Don’t worry about the security of posting it; passwords are stored elsewhere these days.) Also, what arguments are you passing toadduser?If you add a new user, you must configure the password in order for it to appear in GDM. You can use the command
passwd myuserin order to do it.