Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?
On 20 Sep 2004, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> On 17-09-2004, at 20h 24'37", Anthony Campbell wrote about "Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?"
> >
> > Sorry for this follow-up, but I've now discovered what the original
> > problem with the passwords was. The console keymap has somehow gone
> > wrong and is not generating the correct UK symbols for # ~ @ . This may
> > have happened in today's update from Sid - I'm not sure. Anyway, the
> > passwords I was using contained these characters so they were coming out
> > wrong when I typed them, but of course I couldn't see that!
> >
>
> Sometime it happens to me, after an update the keyboard turns either
> French or German. I keep a user with a password with an easy password
> to type, from where, after I login, I can change the keyboard type for
> that user then type su and change it for the system.
>
> Ionel
I may do that if it happens again.
Anthony
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