Re: password problem

2016-07-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:23:32AM +, der.hans wrote: > Am 11. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Bob Holtzman so: > > moin moin Bob, > > >Running a new hard drive in my Thinkpad 420 laptop and trying to install > >jessie. Everything went fine until it failed to configure the net work > >with dns. Strange,

Re: password problem

2016-07-12 Thread Curt
On 2016-07-12, der.hans wrote: >> >>;s The installation proceeded smoothly to the end and I tried to log in. >> That's where the wheels came off. The os wouldn't take the password no >> matter how many tries there were. > > Have you tried from a virtual terminal as well as from X? Did he try from

Re: password problem

2016-07-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:25:35PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Bob. > > On 11/07/16 22:02, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > Running a new hard drive in my Thinkpad 420 laptop and trying to install > > jessie. Everything went fine until it failed to

Re: password problem

2016-07-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/11/16, der.hans wrote: > Am 11. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Bob Holtzman so: > > moin moin Bob, >> >> The installation proceeded smoothly to the end and I tried to log in. >> That's where the wheels came off. The os wouldn't take the password no >> matter how many tries there were. > > Have you tried

Re: password problem

2016-07-11 Thread der.hans
Am 11. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Bob Holtzman so: moin moin Bob, Running a new hard drive in my Thinkpad 420 laptop and trying to install jessie. Everything went fine until it failed to configure the net work with dns. Strange, since I had a good connection to the modem and was getting a signal at th

Re: password problem

2016-07-11 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Bob. On 11/07/16 22:02, Bob Holtzman wrote: > Running a new hard drive in my Thinkpad 420 laptop and trying to install > jessie. Everything went fine until it failed to configure the net work > with dns. Strange, since I had a good connection to the modem and was > getting a signal at the

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:46:38AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: ... I've been a "computer user" since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I just never had reason to have contact with *nix. Even when working for DE

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:46:38AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > ... > > I've been a "computer user" since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I > > just never had reason to have contact with *nix. Even when working > > for DEC I was

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi,I thought about different approach ... Since On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:46:38AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > ... > > I've been a "computer user" since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I > > just never had reason to have con

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: ... > I've been a "computer user" since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I > just never had reason to have contact with *nix. Even when working > for DEC I was much more into analog than digital. I see. I guess you were a VMS or so

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:53:47PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Terho Uotila wrote: Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow passwords. I do not understand. Going by text displayed during the installation I had the impression that shadow pass

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:53:47PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Terho Uotila wrote: > >Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow > >passwords. > > I do not understand. > Going by text displayed during the installation I had the > impression that shadow passwords w

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-16 Thread Richard Owlett
Terho Uotila wrote: Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow passwords. I do not understand. Going by text displayed during the installation I had the impression that shadow passwords were for those overly paranoid about supposed incremental security advantages. My

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-16 Thread Terho Uotila
Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow passwords. On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:04:21 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > 2. Did not enable shadow passwords > (...) > 3. Attempted "su", neither root nor user password accepted You may have hit a bug. I noticed a problem with disab

Re: Password Problem - Solved

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > When the gnome desktop signs me out due to inactivity it shows a screen > with my name on it and asks for a password. It wont accept my password, > the same password I used to start gnome. > > I can get around this by clicking th

Re: Password Problem

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:30:11PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:50:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > When the gnome desktop

Re: Password Problem

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 17:35 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Now that I think about it, I don't really want the desktop to timeout at > > > all. I am the only user

Re: password problem in kde

2006-10-18 Thread seeds
do su in konsole to get to root status and then type in the kde line which asked for password in the console. it will bring you to the screen where u can change the time. L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 10/18/06, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:56:30PM +0530, L.V.Ga

Re: password problem in kde

2006-10-17 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 10/18/06, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:56:30PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:> As root I can login in konsole. But with same password, I couldn't login in > kde dialog for changing time. First I had en_IN as locale. I changed the> locale to en_US to rectify problem

Re: password problem in kde

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:56:30PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > As root I can login in konsole. But with same password, I couldn't login in > kde dialog for changing time. First I had en_IN as locale. I changed the > locale to en_US to rectify problem with audacity menus appearance. I tried > to dele

Re: password problem in kde

2006-10-17 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 21:26, L.V.Gandhi shared this with us all: >--> As root I can login in konsole. But with same password, I couldn't login > in --> kde dialog for changing time. First I had en_IN as locale. I changed > the --> locale to en_US to rectify problem with audacity menus appearan