Control: reassign -1 gnome-control-center I believe this report is describing the User Accounts applet from gnome-control-center, so I'm reassigning it there (and full quoting for their benefit).
Regards, Adam On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 12:28 -0700, Dan Escudero wrote: > Package: base > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have recently installed jessie on my laptop. Everything was going fine > until I tried to create a new admin user. When I created this new admin user, > I > selected the "Set password on next login" option. > This new admin user credential, which had NO PASSWORD set, superceded my > sudo/root password; when I attempted to unlock the users, the system asked for > the new admin password (which had never been set!) and would not accept any > other options. I was effectively locked out of my own admin privileges. > Failed work-around: I logged out and attempted to login to my new admin user > account so I could set the first-time password. Upon so doing, the bloody > thing > asks me for a password!!! I spent the next fifteen minutes cursing and reeling > at the ludicrous paradox I was sure only I could find myself in. > Successful work-around: > Step 1: In Recovery Mode (as root): useradd Danny2 --group sudo; passwd Danny2 > [...] > *** The offending passwordless admin user account had to be removed. > Step 2: userdel Danny > Lessons learned: do not click the box that says “Set password on next > login”. It's a trick. > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.5 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > >
