Login and password problem - newbie (Linz)

[Mary Gardiner]

On 2005-02-27, Bill Christiansen <bill.christiansen at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> I would try recovery mode from the grub menu to see if that gets you to
> the command line as root, you could then use adduser <name> to reset up
> a user. Possibly he remebered the original password incorrectly also
> user name should be lower case and no spaces.

If you can get root access via the single user boot, you can look in the
/etc/passwd file to see if a user with that name already exists.

If they do, you can reset the password via "passwd <name>". If not, add
them as per Bill's suggestion and then run passwd.

-Mary