Can you give exact steps to duplicate the problem? Logging in from where? .bash_profile contents? on Sunday 09/17/2006 Ned Granic(ngranic at cox.net) wrote > Hi all, > > I plaied with the passwd command with the -e option while being loged in as root and therefore messed up my forgotten password for my user name -- the one I picked while installing the debian. > Now when I log in with my user name (not as root) and password, it kicks me out by saying my user name is not a command. > > How do I fix the problem? > > Many thanks in advance! > Ned > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com