~Current: User can't log into X on New install
 

With the ups & downs, I started over with a new install of current while this was easy. Installed a user with and then gave the new user a password.

But I can't log into runlevel 4 with the new user. I can log into a runlevel 3 console, but I can only use X as root. Any ideas?

There is no group 'user'.

Try to add another user using the adduser script (not useradd). When it asks about supplementary groups, it tells you to press UP to use a list of selected groups.

My guess is that the user needs an existing homedirectory if the runlevel is 4 (graphical login). If you login at the console without having a homedir, you end up in the '/' directory if my memory serves me well, but that's different in runlevel 4.

The "useradd" command will not create a homedirectory even if that directory does not yet exist, unless you specify the "-m" parameter to useradd. The Slackware interactive script "adduser" uses that "-m" parameter; use adduser instead of useradd like Petri already recommended!

Thanks guys - sorted. I actually did but forgot to make the homedir initially, and forgot to chown it to luser:group. So my user had no write permissions:redface:

That's what I get for working on 2 PCs simultaneously. I don't multitask well.

+ 1 more for using the 'adduser' script. It does everything you need.

I use usersetup or gtkusersetup from salix-tools and salix-tools-gtk respectively:
https://github.com/gapan/salixtools
https://github.com/gapan/salixtools-gtk

adduser - I didn't know about that. Why not run it automatically on 1st boot?

Slackware doesn't hold your hand, that's why it doesn't run automatically.

Patrick specifically mentions the adduser command in this document, which is in the root directory of your installation media: http://slackware.uk/absolute/snapshot/Slackware-HOWTO

I'll consider myself duly nagged and told off.:redface:

Mind you, having a non-writable homedir wasn't very bright either. Perhaps I'm just too honest:D