user name password change

[John covici]

Can you give exact steps to duplicate the problem? Logging in from
where?  .bash_profile contents?

on Sunday 09/17/2006 Ned Granic(ngranic at cox.net) wrote
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I plaied with the passwd command with the -e option while being loged in as root and therefore messed up my forgotten password for my user name -- the one I picked while installing the debian.
 > Now when I log in with my user name (not as root) and password, it kicks me out by saying my user name is not a command.
 > 
 > How do I fix the problem?
 > 
 > Many thanks in advance!
 > Ned
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