Hi Sam, > When starting up my Arch system and trying to login with my username, > sam, I'm apparently entering the wrong password. I have to login to > the root account and 'passwd sam' to be able to continue.
So you set sam's password to `foo' and then you can log out of root and log in as sam/foo OK? > If I try to use sudo once logged in the password for sam that I just >reset is rejected. To make sudo work I have to login to root, again, This time whilst still logged in as sam, e.g. using su(1) to switch-user to root? > and 'passwd sam'. Examine the text files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Look for duplicate `sam' lines, especially in shadow(5), so it's possible you've two passwords at once? Try going for a simple test password if your normal choices have control-characters or other unusual stuff that might be unacceptable to one of the commands and not the other. You can also run login(1) directly, `login sam', during testing. That's what getty(8) kicks off after you've entered a username. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-02-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
