Many thanks Paul and Dean, As you both came up with the same advice, it must be the right answer. I had in fact tried that myself yesterday without success. However, I tried again (all morning!) but still to no avail. The problem was that Ubuntu still required a password after it had accepted my user name.
After a couple of hours faffing about, during which time I got to know Xandros a lot better, it gradually dawned on me that I had originally set the same password in Fedora Core which I had also installed a couple of weeks ago.. So I copied the 'random symbols' from that /etc/shadow file into Ubuntu's and Bob's your uncle as they used to say. This experience has made me appreciate Ubuntu all the more and taught me to be a lot more careful in future. I have one more problem on which I would welcome advice, but I'll keep it quiet for now as I don't want to push my luck. I will say that whilst there is not a great deal of activity on this newsgroup compared to some others to which I subscribe, there seems to be an immediate response to those asking advice, which indicates what a nice bunch Ubuntu users seem to be. Again, many thanks, Keith. -- Keith Bowerman, Prestwood, South Staffordshire, England Touch not the cat bot a glove -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
