Re: odd passwd problem.

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Thu 01 Aug 2019 at 06:28:17 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> Debian-arm netinstall on a pi3b;

… about which I know nothing. (A physicist once showed me an original
pi in the pub, I think.)

> No root pw set, I am housebroken to using sudo now.
> 
> netinstall didn't install x anything although I thought I was selecting 
> xfce4, so my first action on the reboot was to 
> "sudo apt install xfce4". reboot, works, have x and 4 workspaces.
> 
> Then "sudo apt install build-essential and buildbot, cups". reboot, 
> worked once, login normal. Then I plugged in a 120GB ssd which had a 
> bunch of src stuff on it I'll need later and powered up again. Can't 
> login, passwd no good.  Dbl check, caps lock off, try again several 
> times, passwd no good.
> 
> Come to the house and ssh -Y picnc. passwd good, I have 2 sessions 
> running right now from konsoles on this machine. Back to the garage, 
> passwd fails.
> 
> Suggested course of action? I do have access to it via ssh. And sudo -i 
> works.

My first action would be to revert the change: remove the SSD.
I'm assuming that typing the username ± Caps behaves normally.

Cheers,
David.