[PLUG] Can't log in to new Debian install

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Mon Nov 2 06:21:55 UTC 2009


On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:07:17 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

> So0mething has gone wrong. During the installation I set myself up as
> jjj (lowercase), and it took my password and the confirmation of the
> password. But I can't log in as jjj at the login screen. All I get is
> is "incorrect username or password."  However, I can log in as root;
> that is, from the login screen I can select Actions > Configure the
> Login Manager, and it takes the root password.
> 
> I could start all over again, but there must be some way for root to
> reset jjj's password and/or username.

OK, I rebooted to recovery mode and am now sitting at a command
line, logged in as root. I'm googling on how to set up/fix users from
the command line.



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