Re: odd passwd problem.
On Saturday 03 August 2019 10:35:17 mick crane wrote:
> On 2019-08-03 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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?
>
> I dunno, if they have no problems might be able to see what is
> different. Can always delete them.
That will take a real file manager, and theres only one, mc. thunar is a
one armed, one legged paper hanger, and the arm it has is broken.
Somebody should either give it some two pane tools, or put it out of its
misery. Mc has the ncurses interface, butt ugly. But it runs and can
do its job including from a text login on vt#roll of the die. So I broke
down and installed mc mc-data. And the only diff in the home dirs is
mine has a thunar entry. I tried to do something with that broken POC.
Failed of course.
But I just went back out and that xsession has died, and I can't log back
in. Or maybe its the screen blanker kicking in and using lightdm's
login to unblank ? If the blanker is locking it instead of coming alive
at a keypress or a jiggled mouse, how the h--- do I get rid of that?
If thats the case, I have more than enough paranoia, and I sure don't
need a paranoid machine, one that when doing its job might need an
xset -dpms so the job can be monitored until its done even if, like
wheezy running my mill, a 70 line file of gcode text takes over 28 hours
to run.
Thanks Mick.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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