Public bug reported:
I installed my system from a fiesty image. sometime in august I upgrade
my sources.list to gutsy. I regularly upgraded with the automatic
updates. At some point in september, my attempt to upgrade failed
because my password was rejected. This password was also my main user
account password. So I had a root console open and tried to do 'passwd
kevin' to reset my main user account password and this action succeeded
but had no effect when I tried to login with this account or use it for
a sudo command. I fixed the problem by shutting down, booting into
single user mode, doing 'passwd kevin' and then rebooting. This made the
password 'stick'. unsure way? Maybe pam, libc or kernel upgrade, as it
happened during gutsy development.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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main user account password corrupted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154559
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