Hola! I- m starting to get desperate! I found lots of instructions on the web about how to solve this, but none of them works. Example, I founmd this
In grub press e ton edit options add to init options init=/bin/sh RET press b to boot Then mount -o remount,rw / passwd kjetil (repeating new password twice) exec init and then giving new password. Does not work, I cannot get into my system Whats happening=? Kjetil On 2012-03-16, Greg Madden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday 16 March 2012 12:47:06 pm Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: >> Hola! >> >> My system, debian wheezy amd-64, refuses to recognize my password. I am >> sure I am typing it correctly. >> >> I was able to , at login time, where grub pauses to ask which kernel tyo >> uise, >> to choose the maintenance option, dropping me to a shell. There I was able >> to type >> >> sudo passwd kjetil >> >> which asked to give a new password, which I repeated >> >> then it said password succesfully changed. But no effect, >> I can still not login! >> >> What is happeninmg? >> >> Kjetil > > If you arre logged in to the singler user mode, maintenace shell?, you are > root > and do not need to use 'sudo' That said, not sure about your failed login as > user. Maybe try using the 'passwd' command without 'sudo', > -- > Peace, > > Greg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1984) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAH=m5mizvsn_sar9tclricc1yq5fppflycaq94fq8hwfpbv...@mail.gmail.com
