Help can't login!

[Pete Smout]

@google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
sent from my HTC.
On Sep 15, 2013 11:12 PM, "Pete Smout" <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 11:03 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
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> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Bahn, Nathan <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>
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> >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Infact to prove I'm not mad......
> >> > http://db.tt/uxAHoqCZ
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm afraid that I'm a jackass.  From any tty CLI please enter root:
> >> $ su XXX
> >> #
> >> where XXX=your login ID.
> >> Then please try tty7.  All this may do is merely confirm that I'm a
jackass.
> >
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> >
> >
> > Yeah, I'm a certifiable jackass.  From tty1:
> > $ su
> > #
> > Then try tty7.
> Interestingly Su asks for passwd, and gives authentication failure, su
pete asks for psswd, then let's me in switching to tty7 then trying to
login gives no output on tty1, but doesn't let me in
>
> Thanks
> Pete
>
> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ,
http://www.libreoffice.org/ & http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument (Nathan
Bahn)
> >
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Right I've been thinking along the same lines as earlier, and thought to
chown my whole home directory to pete:pete to make sure that there's no
sneaky file with the wrong permissions snuck into it!

Welcome to Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-30-generic i686)

* Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

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0 updates are security updates.

Last login: Sun Sep 15 22:58:51 2013
You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier.

pete at petes-lappy:~$ sudo chown -R pete:pete
[sudo] password for pete:
chown: missing operand after ‘pete:pete’
Try 'chown --help' for more information.
pete at petes-lappy:~$

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Pete
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