For some reason normal users can not log in, although root can. When a normal user attempts to login the screen flashes a couple times asthough its changing resolution then redesplays the login screen.

it seems to be like the home dir is not set. login in as root, create the home dir. assign the home dir for the user you are trying to login.

thank you for the response. my users already have their respective home directories created and assigned. *** more info on the problem *** i can log in as a normal user if i first log in as root then su - cat /var/dt/Xerrors (EE) screenInfo.numScreens = 1 (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Mar 10 09:47:57 2003 (EE) PreInit done Symbol abort from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a is unresolved! (EE) screenInfo.numScreens = 1 (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue Mar 11 20:24:43 2003 (EE) PreInit done Symbol abort from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a is unresolved! AUDIT: Tue Mar 11 20:25:00 2003: 2015 Xsun: client 3 rejected from local host AUDIT: Tue Mar 11 20:25:00 2003: 2015 Xsun: client 3 rejected from local host AUDIT: Tue Mar 11 20:25:00 2003: 2015 Xsun: client 3 rejected from local host AUDIT: Tue Mar 11 20:25:00 2003: 2015 Xsun: client 3 rejected from local host AUDIT: Tue Mar 11 20:25:00 2003: 2015 Xsun: client 3 rejected from local host AUDIT: Tue Mar 11 20:25:00 2003: 2015 Xsun: client 3 rejected from local host AUDIT: Tue Mar 11 20:25:00 2003: 2015 Xsun: client 3 rejected from local host (EE) screenInfo.numScreens = 1 (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue Mar 11 20:25:00 2003 (EE) PreInit done Symbol abort from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a is unresolved!