user name password change

[John covici]

You can change the password once you log in as root using the passwd
command.  Set the password and try again.

on Sunday 09/17/2006 Ned Granic(ngranic at cox.net) wrote
 > 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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 > >
 > > -- 
 > > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
 > > How do
 > > you spend it?
 > >
 > >         John Covici
 > >         covici at ccs.covici.com
 > >
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 > > 
 > 
 > 
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Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici at ccs.covici.com