Package: base Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I have recently installed jessie on my laptop. Everything was going fine until I tried to create a new admin user. When I created this new admin user, I selected the "Set password on next login" option. This new admin user credential, which had NO PASSWORD set, superceded my sudo/root password; when I attempted to unlock the users, the system asked for the new admin password (which had never been set!) and would not accept any other options. I was effectively locked out of my own admin privileges. Failed work-around: I logged out and attempted to login to my new admin user account so I could set the first-time password. Upon so doing, the bloody thing asks me for a password!!! I spent the next fifteen minutes cursing and reeling at the ludicrous paradox I was sure only I could find myself in. Successful work-around: Step 1: In Recovery Mode (as root): useradd Danny2 --group sudo; passwd Danny2 [...] *** The offending passwordless admin user account had to be removed. Step 2: userdel Danny Lessons learned: do not click the box that says “Set password on next login”. It's a trick. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
