[extra.fine]

Hi,
I'm new at Linux and at first day, as usual, i have problems with it.

I can't log in.

Ubuntu comes iwth ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
extra&extra:~$ su -->what i wrote
Password: -->i wrote password
su: Authentication failure.
Sorry.
extra&extra:~$

I already changed password today, with command with passwd.
I found help on page
http://learnlinux.tsf.org.za/courses...s/ch04s03.html


Can somebody please help.

Thanks.

Bye,
extra

[djap]

How did you try changing the password?
by

 sudo passwd

?

edit:

And btw? what do you mean you can't log in?

Originally Posted by extra.fine

extra&extra:~$ su -->what i wrote
Password: -->i wrote password
su: Authentication failure.
Sorry.
extra&extra:~$

To me it seems that you are in and you are trying to take system administrator priviledges, which you propably shouldn't do if you don't have any reason.

[extra.fine]

Hi,
I tried to chage it like that

ebian login: student
Password:
Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci
#1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown Most of the programs included
with the Debian GNU/Linux system are freely redistributable; the exact
distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files
in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
student@debian:~$ passwd
Changing password for student (current) Unix password:
Enter new Unix password:
Retype new Unix password:
passwd: password updated successfully
student@debian:~$ _


So how can i log in. I know i tried to log in as administrator, but it didn't work. Is there anorher way?

[djap]

So you want to change the administration password and then take the administrator priviledges right?

Originally Posted by extra.fine

student@debian:~$ passwd

In that case this above is wrong because it will change only the password for user "student" and we would need to change the password for user "root".


Change the administrator's (root user's) password like this:

[lappi@b-205-110 ~]$ sudo passwd
Password:[your own password]
Changing password for user root.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[lappi@b-205-110 ~]$

Note that it doesn't show anything when you type the passwords. This of course assumes that you have the right to change the root's password (your username is in sudoers list).
Then just

[lappi@b-205-110 ~]$ su
Password:[root's password]
[root@b-205-110 lappi]#

[adeswas]

Thanks Djap!!!