user name password change

[Ned Granic]

Where am I loging from?
The shell -- I thinks.
on startup I loged in as root (and messed up the password), then exited (the 
exit command), then tried to log in again as user by using the user name I 
created during the installation process.

I tried to use the base-config command to reset the user name and passwords, 
and it just kicks me back to the config window from which I could only 
choose the "finished configuration" option.

One more question; is w3m browser accessible with speakup at all? At least 
in my class I couldn't open one single link.

It's Debian 2.6.17 box.

Many thanks in advance!
Ned
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 3:42 PM
Subject: user name password change


> 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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>
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