How to add a new user and switch to it?

BryanFRitt · Published in 2015-5-6 06:54:18

How to add a new user and switch to it? I've tried `adduser` and 'useradd` to create a new user, but when I try to switch to the new user `su NEWUSERNAME` nothing really changes, I'm still the root user. Even tried logging out and then back in as the newly created user, but that doesn't work either. I'm on a 'headless' RaspbianOS Orange Pi Plus, stuck with only the ability to use the 'root' account.

drizzle · Published in 2015-8-5 22:27:05

Hello,

I am having the same problem.

zhao_steven , any update on this??

gr4ce · Published in 2015-8-4 05:18:09

Hi, I had the same problem BryanFRitt was explaining.
Created a new user su into it, nothing happens

Even if I try to log in from the login screen it doesn't work. Also trying to go into a shell login (ctrl + alt + F1-6) freezes the board without any possibility to recover apart from reboot.

zhao_steven · Published in 2015-5-7 21:13:13

I will fix it. You need wait me.

ledongthuc · Published in 2015-8-20 07:31:42

any news zhao_steven ?

fritz · Published in 2015-8-21 18:12:39

Edited by fritz at 2015-8-21 11:13

ledongthuc replied at 2015-8-20 00:31
any news zhao_steven ?

This is the response:
You need wait for a while.

@ALL
open a terminal and write:

echo 32768 > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

Copy code

or maybe if it does not work:

echo 4096 > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

Copy code

Now you can login with useraccount:
username: orangepi
password: orangepi
or
username:bananapi
password: bananapi

please confirm

fritz · Published in 2015-8-21 20:02:10

Ok, tried myself and it worked.

question: but when I reboot it does not work anymore why?

response: please wait for a while ahhhh this is @steven

response from fritz:

To ensure that this change in value is retained even after a reboot
you have to create a configuration file etc/sysctl.d/mmap_min_addr.conf

how to do?

from a terminal with root permissions type:

echo "vm.mmap_min_addr = 4096" > /etc/sysctl.d/mmap_min_addr.conf

Copy code

or

echo "vm.mmap_min_addr = 32768" > /etc/sysctl.d/mmap_min_addr.conf

Copy code

depends on the value you want. but both values should work
reboot and check if value change is permanent with:

cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

Well, I'm a little pissed off about how things are going here
This is my last post on this forum until new and working code appears!

Bye guys

animous · Published in 2015-9-6 07:30:47

@fritz, I registered just to be able to say thank you!

Amatøren · Published in 2015-10-11 05:16:06

Still same problem! Not interested in fixing it?

Amatøren · Published in 2015-10-11 05:17:38

Still not working! Not interested in fixing it?