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Can you share the lines from
/etc/passwdfor your user and the user your adding? Despite its name, there are no passwords here, that is in/etc/shadowEdit: can you
suto login as the user?How do I pull those up? Yep, I'm one of those, used the GUI as I don't know how to do it from the terminal, plus I'm immensely forgetful
/etc/passwd: you may be able to get to this from the GUI file manager.If not, open a terminal and type:
cat /etc/passwd. Copy the relevant lines.To test the login, from a terminal, type
su otheruser, replace otheruser with the username from/etc/passwd. It should ask for a password, put that in and it should log you in. Typewhoamiand make sure its the same username as you expected. Paste any errors here.