Other Help Topics :: change defalt username

Every user needs a home directory. Did you make one? The password might be required for su to work...just a guess, since i've never had multiple users in DSL.

where should i be creating the home directory so it coppys into /ramdisk/home and how to i make dsl copy the skel profile in there?

is there a couple of scripts somware that i can edit?

Using the adduser command as root *should* ask for a home directory (providing the default as /home/username). You should not need to manually edit files when adding new users.

i re-created the account but im still getting
http://users.tpg.com.au/nick05/wft.png

original here.