On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:01:23 -0700 David <[email protected]> dijo: >No, you *must* have the proper number of fields in the shadow file >entry to have things work properly. > >An example of an account that never has login access would be this: > >www-data:*:15754:0:99999:7::: > >Now, if you wanted to make it password-free, you only need to remove >the '*' and leave no spaces between the colons: > >www-data::15754:0:99999:7::: > >Next you switch to another virtual terminal (Ctrl-F4) and then use >'jjj' as the username and you *should* get a prompt straight away. > >Alternatively, you can try using the hash for your guest account that >seemed to work for you before, by pasting that in the second of the >colon separated fields.
Damn Claws Mail. There is some esoteric command that causes the message to be instantly discarded, and I keep invoking it via some typo. OK, typing the whole thing all over again. Once I realized that the colons represented fields and that there had to be eight of them (which I determined by lengthy trial and error) I was able to log in from the command line by leaving thepassword empty. Also sudo su works without a password. But from the login screen it still just cycles back to the login screen. This tells me that there never was anything wrong with my password or the hash. The problem lies in the GUI login screen. Something in the dozen or so updaes that I applied messed that up. So now I am logged at the command line as jjj. I tried startx, but ran into yet another problem. For about five minutes I stared at a black screen. Then finally I got: No protocol specified (a full screen full) xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Resource temporarily unavailable Waiting for X server to shut don (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file xinit: server error xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/jjj/.Xauthority Does this mean that X can't run unless it is authorized by jjj, using his old password? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
