Tim: >>> What's the permissions of the /tmp directory? I've seen that sort >>> of thing in prior releases, because there was a problem there. >>> >>> [tim@suspishus ~]$ ls -dl /tmp >>> drwxrwxrwt 53 root root 4096 2009-03-03 01:01 /tmp Craig White: > since user 'root' is OK, I suspect that you probably are having an > issue with older settings and you can temporarily move them out of the > way... Just going off on a tangent - when I noticed this issue, several Fedora releases ago, thanks to the /tmp permissions that I mention, root could still log in (graphically), but users couldn't. I expect because root could still create the files it wanted in the way that it wanted them. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.15-78.2.23.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines