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On 02/23/2017 10:47 AM, Dan Norton
wrote:
While playing around with Xfce, startx, and
fvwm I've managed to clobber something such that the user can't
log in. All attempts result in a fresh login box with my inputs
removed. However, it is still possible to log in as root.
I've tried passwd to no avail.
I've tried editing /etc/shadow and removing everything between
the first two : (expecting to log in with a blank or no
password) to no avail.
To get to this point, I used Xfce on:
#1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1 (2016-12-30)
fvwm was installed using Synaptic and run from an Xfce
terminal session. When it did not produce the expected result, I
shut down and rebooted. At this point it was no longer possible
to log in as user - only as root.
Do I have to rename /home/<user>, delete <user>,
then re-define it as a new user and restore its home directory?
Or is there a better way?
It should be possible to do some serious research and figure out
exactly which package is croaking, and why, and then edit the
configuration file for that package in /home/<user>. But in
my experience with similar situations, this takes much more time
than it is worth. I have found that usually just deleting the
configuration files in /home/<user> will work. This is
probably easier than the solution that you propose, but your
solution should work as well, as long as you don't copy back the
configuration files when you do the restore.
Thanks,
- Dan
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73's de Mike, WB5VQX
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