Jason Liquorish wrote: > Keith wrote: >> I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle and would appreciate >> any help. >> >> I have a non-Windows machine with two separate hard drives. Ubuntu is >> on one and Kubuntu on the other, They are both partitioned with home >> directories on a separate partition. There is an additional user on >> each distro. >> >> On Friday a problem arose with the Kubuntu distribution which I couldn't >> resolve myself, so I decided to install v. 8.04.01, especially as it now >> included KDE 4. All seemed to be OK until I tried to boot up Ubuntu >> which stalled and needed a CTRL-D to get to the desktop. Not to worry, >> I thought, I'll reinstall with 8.04.1 which proceeded normally. >> However, when the other user tried to log in, Ubuntu would not accept >> the password. I googled extensively but the only remedy I could find >> was to recover my own password, which was not applicable here and didn't >> help recover, or change, the password in question. I even tried to >> "re-add" the second user but Ubuntu told me that the user already >> existed, etc. >> >> So I'm stumped and if anyone can help me resolve the problem, I shall be >> very pleased. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Keith. >> >> >> --- >> Keith Bowerman, >> Prestwood, south Staffs, England. >> Using Ubuntu 8.04 on a Linux only machine >> >> >> > If you boot to the recovery console then you have full root access. from > here you can run "passwd <username>" to change the password of that > user. I have had this problem before and it was worrying to find out how > easy it was to do this, although if someone has physical access to your > computer its as good as compromised anyway. > > Hope this helps =) > Seems my e-mail is being rather slow today =(
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