So it's all happy now with two user accounts, your old one's still working fine and your new one is nicely set up? Because that's a totally normal thing to do - you can add as many as you like and, yes, they will start out all separate.
...you can give some of them privileges, you can let some of them share files in a common directory, you might want to let some have the same Firefox bookmarks, perhaps? (or without any addons, you can copy bookmarks.html from one to the other when you want to) You might even want both of them logged into their own session on the same machine at once.
Ha, so, turns out my "research" wasn't very thorough. Thanks for the links! It's mostly going good now, I've just got residual problems (my dmrc (?!) file apparently doesn't have the right priveleges, even though I've totally set the right privileges? Maybe I can just delete it?), and if I thought about it a bit more, I probably could set up shared bookmarks and whatnot. I haven't really thought about what sort of things I'd need to access under the second account. I'm so stoked that this is something that's entirely possible though! :D
Your $HOME/.dmrc file? I guess there is some lingering problem from an old directory that was moved or reused for the new user (or a chown or chmod command?). Apparently $HOME/.dmrc comes back if you delete it. That happens when you log in a choose a session, probably the Default one, GNOME. As you log in gdm is checking permissions of your $HOME directory and of that file and complaining.
It's no big problem, but as for fixing it, it's easy to tell you that everything in your home directory should normally be owned by you, the current user. It's a little harder to say exactly which files and directories for which paranoid and picky programs need to be especially private.
I'd get a listing first for posterity and save it into a file:
$ ls -ld / /home $HOME $HOME/.dmrc
or:
$ ls -ld / /home $HOME $HOME/.dmrc | tee ls-dmrc.txtdrwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2009-07-17 12:44
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...you can give some of them privileges, you can let some of them share files in a common directory, you might want to let some have the same Firefox bookmarks, perhaps? (or without any addons, you can copy bookmarks.html from one to the other when you want to) You might even want both of them logged into their own session on the same machine at once.
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It's no big problem, but as for fixing it, it's easy to tell you that everything in your home directory should normally be owned by you, the current user. It's a little harder to say exactly which files and directories for which paranoid and picky programs need to be especially private.
I'd get a listing first for posterity and save it into a file:
$ ls -ld / /home $HOME $HOME/.dmrc
or:
$ ls -ld / /home $HOME $HOME/.dmrc | tee ls-dmrc.txtdrwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2009-07-17 12:44 ( ... )
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