Re: odd passwd problem.
On Thursday 01 August 2019 09:45:42 David Wright wrote:
> 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've also tried that, no help.
> I'm assuming that typing the username ± Caps behaves normally.
Seems to act normally.
> Cheers,
> David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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