On September 28, 2004 20:51, Terence Golightly wrote: > List, > > Apologies if this is a repost, I didn't see the original. Recently I > changed my user password and now when I lock the screen my password is > refused. ...
Just a thought. I had trouble when I first started with Mdk, until I noticed that once it's been sitting for more than a few minutes, when you type the first character of your password, it refreshes the screen and discards that character. Rather annoying, but I've gotten used to it. Type the first character, wait a few seconds, and see if the "*" disappears in the password field. If so, retype that first character along with the rest of the password. Or you may have mistyped your new password when you changed it. Try changing it again. If the passwd command rejects your current password, this will confirm it. Try your previous password also, as possibly the change didn't take effect. If because of a typo you don't know what your password is now, you can do the following to change it as root: su passwd <youruserid> This will let you set a new password without knowing the old one. Hope this helps. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL.
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