user name password change

[Chris Norman]

If that fails, bot from a live CD such as GRML, and find the user's entry in 
/etc/passwd, and remove the capital x after their user name, don't remove 
the colons though.

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- 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: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: user name password change


> 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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> > > How do
> > > you spend it?
> > >
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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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