Re: odd passwd problem.
On Saturday 03 August 2019 07:08:08 mick crane wrote:
> On 2019-08-01 11:28, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Debian-arm netinstall on a pi3b;
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> I would probably add another user and see if they have same problem on
> the local machine.
>
> mick
I'd thought of that but not tried it yet. I'll need a user amanda who is
a member of group backup for the backup program amanda. So I'll use
that as a guinea pig.
Or will I? copy/paste from konsole logged in as gene:
gene@picnc:~$ sudo adduser
[sudo] password for gene:
adduser: Only one or two names allowed.
gene@picnc:~$
WTH?
Thanks Mick Crane.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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