Hi everybody, I was introduced by Anurag, after finding out his mail in the open forum while surfing the Net to set my problem. He had suggested to be part of the mailing list which I have done, however the site refuses to open up for me for unknown reasons repeatedly stating that the the username and/or password is incorrect dspite inputtting the correct details.I have experienced a snag on my desktop which is loaded with a LINUX OS way back in 2005. In fact, the OS was installed by my friend who is terribly sick and I feel it indecent to call him for this, we are in the late fifties. One would be wondering as to what I was doing all these years, Yes, I was operating my WIN XP Pro thru the laptop which I have carried to almost all cities in India and a couple of times abroad when on duty tour. Now I am a relaxed and retired guy. This Linux OS is installed on a pc having Athlon CPU on a Asus motherboard. I used to use the PC for as much as 5 years prior to my friend installing the Linux OS on the same PC with XP home and the other day after opening the desktop I had to update all the MS prog and you well know it took me almost 5 hours, maybe more to download and install. The switch provided by my friend, a toggle switch to 'switchover' from the XP to Linux ( after shutting off the PC) and I saw it is working fine as when in a particular direction the OS switches either to XP or Linux. On opening the Linux OS I found after booting which must be taking less than a minute or slightly more faced with a login page. I appreciate my friend that he has mentioned both my login ID and password within the Linux symbol for ease of use and on punching these details the 'login failed' pops up. As I am new I was wondering if you could help in solvingin starting my Linux OS. Something like disabling the login itself or in the least to reprogram the login dialogue. Please remember- *I am a novice as far as PCs go *and use it mostly to surf,mail and IM etc. Trust I have contacted the correct persons for the advice. Grateful if one of you could help me out. Thanks and regards SBUdiavar
*PS: Could somebody post this on the forum page please as I can not do it due to login prob I'm facing in the ILUG site. Thnx.*
Hello there,
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM, SUBHASH UDIAVAR subhashudiavar@gmail.comwrote:
On opening the Linux OS I found after booting which must be taking less than
a minute or slightly more faced with a login page. I appreciate my friend that he has mentioned both my login ID and password within the Linux symbol for ease of use and on punching these details the 'login failed' pops up. As I am new I was wondering if you could help in solvingin starting my Linux OS. Something like disabling the login itself or in the least to reprogram the login dialogue. Please remember- *I am a novice as far as PCs go *and use it mostly to surf,mail and IM etc.
Please bear with me while we figure out the exact problem. Are you saying that you are unable to log into your machine that is running a Linux distribution?
You can reset your password by booting into single-user mode (which is something like the "Safe Mode" on Windows but not quite). But before we do that I need to know which distribution of Linux you are using (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, etc.) and whether you see this word "grub" when you start your computer.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-reset-forgotten-root-password/
You will find those links useful. Of course, we will be able to guide you better through resetting your password after you've given us a few more details.
Trust I have contacted the correct persons for the advice. Grateful if one
of you could help me out. Thanks and regards SBUdiavar
Sure thing.
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