Re: odd passwd problem.
On Saturday 03 August 2019 11:46:30 mick crane wrote:
> On 2019-08-03 16:31, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 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.
>
> When it logs you out can you log in at another screen (whatever it's
> called) Ctrl Alt F key ?
> If so then is something about the display manager ?
ctrl+alt+F8, yes, so I opened a term and did an xset -dpms.
Whats the name of that lightdm config editor.
Cheers Mick, Gene Heskett
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