Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!
On Friday 16 March 2012 12:47:06 pm Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
>
> My system, debian wheezy amd-64, refuses to recognize my password. I am
> sure I am typing it correctly.
>
> I was able to , at login time, where grub pauses to ask which kernel tyo
> uise,
> to choose the maintenance option, dropping me to a shell. There I was able
> to type
>
> sudo passwd kjetil
>
> which asked to give a new password, which I repeated
>
> then it said password succesfully changed. But no effect,
> I can still not login!
>
> What is happeninmg?
>
> Kjetil
If you arre logged in to the singler user mode, maintenace shell?, you are root
and do not need to use 'sudo' That said, not sure about your failed login as
user. Maybe try using the 'passwd' command without 'sudo',
--
Peace,
Greg
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