Ron,
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 12:30, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > 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, I don't notice this. > 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. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my original post: I am currently logged in as user in X via gdm. This problem occurs after I have locked the screen and press a button or move the mouse/trackball. the password popup appears but when I enter the password (the same one I used to log in to my current session with) it is rejected and the screen goes blank again. > > 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. Sorry if my post wasn't clear. Thanks, Terry Terry Golightly ... t_dot_golightly-at-verizon_dot_net ... Pgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB 13:34:57 up 14 days, 20:08, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.04 The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself. -- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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