Help can't login!

[Bill Stanley]

On 09/15/2013 04:09 PM, Bahn, Nathan wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com 
> <mailto:smoutpete at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
>     sent from my HTC.
>     On Sep 15, 2013 9:03 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com
>     <mailto:nathan.bahn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com
>     <mailto:smoutpete at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > > @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do
>     with you!
>     > > sent from my HTC.
>     > > On Sep 15, 2013 8:47 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com
>     <mailto:nathan.bahn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     > >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Pete Smout
>     <smoutpete at gmail.com <mailto:smoutpete at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > >> > Hi,
>     > >> > Just rebooted my 13.04 laptop, and I cannot login, lightdm
>     comes up, I
>     > >> > enter
>     > >> > my password, and end up back at the login screen!
>     > >> > I can get in with another user account, but it does not
>     have root
>     > >> > access, so
>     > >> > I can only view logs on syslog viewer, not all logs! As in
>     not the
>     > >> > lightdm
>     > >> > log or the greater log, which I can see in the file broswer
>     but not
>     > >> > open!
>     > >> > I have changed the passed of my account (after the trouble
>     started) to
>     > >> > see
>     > >> > if it was authentication problem, but no change.
>     > >> >
>     > >> > Any ideas gratefully received.
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>     > >> > Pete Smout
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>     > >> Do you know how to access the command line interface?
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>     > > Yes I can login to a shell using my name and passwd.....?
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>     > please try:
>     > $ su -l XXX
>     > where XXX =your login ID (please note "-l" is NOT the number one)
>     > --
>     Tried that asks for my sudo passwd then back to prompt no other
>     output!
>     Thanks for your help
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WS=> It sounds to me like your admin (sudo) password became corrupted.  
Maybe you could boot up with a Live disk or a flash drive installation.  
Once you have booted up, the sudo password is null.  Sudo will ask for 
the root password but since you booted with a Live disk (or flash drive) 
just press <ENTER>.    Then go to Users and Groups and try to reset the 
password on your admin account.

I don't know if this will work but I have used this method to run root 
privilege programs and it worked for me.
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