[Tfug] HELP!!! Username/password issue in Ubuntu...time critical...

Jim March 1.jim.march at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 18:23:26 MST 2007


I'm helping a friend convert.  Everything is going great, I'm showing
her the finished system (Feisty) all tuned up, and it turns out I've
mis-spelled her name (ann) in creating her username.

It has to be "anne".

Her password was "[something]ann".

So I go into user and groups, change "ann" to "anne" and add an "e" to
the end of her password.  Close out, shutdown, bring it up...and it is
NOT letting me log in.  As anything.

Fuuuuck.

The good news: with the liveboot CD I've got access to her hard disk.
At the command line I guess, how do I fix this, stat?

:(

Thanks!

Jim




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