I just discovered something interesting:
None of the accounts on my machine will login with Xorg.
The option is offered, but is does not work.
For F40, I had selected gnome-classic with Xorg.
New accounts defaulted to gnome with Wayland.
When I made a new hennebry account, even with an old home di
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Barry wrote:
You could login at a console and eliminate the gui as a problem.
Type alt-ctrl-f3 to get a console.
Thank you for that suggestion.
I could login from a console.
Clearly the problem was not my password.
Auto-relabel did not get me back to the gui,
but just getti
On Jun 19, 2024, at 16:41, Joe Zeff wrote:
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> On 06/19/2024 02:31 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>> So, if you’ve used a rescue disk to boot into Linux, chroot into your OS’s
>> disk, and run “passwd” to change a password, or otherwise edit /etc/shadow
>> or /etc/passwd (or other files in /etc)
On 19 Jun 2024, at 18:25, Michael Hennebry wrote:I try to login: click on the user and type in my password.F40 just goes back to the select a user screen.You could login at a console and eliminate the gui as a problem.Type alt-ctrl-f3 to get a console.You could use the process to reset a forgotten
On 06/19/2024 02:31 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
So, if you’ve used a rescue disk to boot into Linux, chroot into your OS’s
disk, and run “passwd” to change a password, or otherwise edit /etc/shadow or
/etc/passwd (or other files in /etc), you most likely need to fix the selinux
labels of thos
On Jun 19, 2024, at 13:25, Michael Hennebry
wrote:
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> I recently installed F40 from DVD.
> F40 and I are having a difference of opinion
> regarding what password I gave the initial user.
> F40 is winning.
> I find it hard to believe I typed in the same wrong password twice,
> but it's F40's op
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:15:21 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I'll try that.
> Since it has worked for you,
> I infer that you did an su first,
> otherwise I'd expect passwd to ask for a password.
You have to be root to do a chroot, so yep, I'm root
once I get there.
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:24:48 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
My usual strategy is to boot a live disk
and to edit the passwd and shadow files directly.
My strategy is to boot a live cd, then chroot into the
copy on disk and use the passwd command.
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:24:48 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> My usual strategy is to boot a live disk
> and to edit the passwd and shadow files directly.
My strategy is to boot a live cd, then chroot into the
copy on disk and use the passwd command. Maybe that
would work better?
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I recently installed F40 from DVD.
F40 and I are having a difference of opinion
regarding what password I gave the initial user.
F40 is winning.
I find it hard to believe I typed in the same wrong password twice,
but it's F40's opinion that counts.
I try to login: click on the user and type in my
I've got a number of Fedora machines that have wifi and have had
no issues with being able to work with connecting to various wifis.
But had done a setup for my brothers one notebook with Fedora
40, and it would come up with a message that system policy was
requiring authentication??
It would ha
On 19 Jun 2024 at 14:52, Tim via users wrote:
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