Yes, I knew about that, but a little question is how? That's exactly the way I messed up the thing. I am loged in as root. Now, I want to change the password (that I forgot) for the user created during the instalation. How do I do that? Many thanks again! Ned ----- Original Message ----- From: "John covici" <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:03 PM Subject: Re: user name password change > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
