You can change the password once you log in as root using the passwd command. Set the password and try again. on Sunday 09/17/2006 Ned Granic(ngranic at cox.net) wrote > Where am I loging from? > The shell -- I thinks. > on startup I loged in as root (and messed up the password), then exited (the > exit command), then tried to log in again as user by using the user name I > created during the installation process. > > I tried to use the base-config command to reset the user name and passwords, > and it just kicks me back to the config window from which I could only > choose the "finished configuration" option. > > One more question; is w3m browser accessible with speakup at all? At least > in my class I couldn't open one single link. > > It's Debian 2.6.17 box. > > Many thanks in advance! > Ned > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 3:42 PM > Subject: user name password change > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
