Creating Users through the GUI not working

[MDT]

Ok,
I'm new at this, but I think I found a bug. When I created a new user on my fresh install of Linux Mint, it created the home directory correctly, and added all the 'windowesque' sub directories. However, that user can't access them because the install did not change the owner (ROOT is still owner). Since root is not a valid user with Mint (I can't login as root), I can't figure out how to change the directories to belong to that user. I can't even delete and recreate them...



Help please?

MDT

[MDT]

Ok, I figured out how to fix them manually by doing a websearch and then using SUDO CHOWN. So I guess this is just a bug report now, not a request for help...

Not sure why it happened...

[clem]

when you log in with that user, what is the output of :

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echo $USER

?
Clem

[MDT]

Lady Luck brings added income today. Lady friend takes it away tonight.
james@mint:~$ echo $USER
james
james@mint:~$

PS: I love the little fortunes that pop up when terminal is activated...

[zolly]

I made a new user from System->Administration->Users and Groups->Add user, a wrote a Username and the Password. I open a Terminal, su mynewuser and I look inside its home with mc. I didn't see any problem. I made a Switch Users and I enter with the new user name. I open a Terminal and with mc I didn't see any problem with access.
Please write the steps you made to add a user and which folders are with problems.

[MDT]

Well,
I created two new users on the machine, and they all had the correct permissions on their folders. I guess it was a glitch in the first users creation. Since I can't reproduce it, and since I used the same steps each time (Basically System-->Users and Groups-->Add User, Fill out form), I guess it's not all that important. If that's the only glitch I encounter, it's still about 8000% better than M$ junk.

MDT