Help can't login!

[Bahn, Nathan]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:02 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 11:53 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> >
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> > If my understanding is correct, then your attempt to login as root
failed ("su") but your login attempt as pete ("su pete") succeeded.  This
suggests to me that your root password is corrupted.  Sorry, but I'm all
out of ideas.
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> Hi,
> Yes your understanding is correct, but I have only ever had 1 root passwd
associated with my main account, there is no separate root user to my
knowledge, and I have been the main user on this laptop since ubuntu was
first cleanly installed!
> If I can log into a shell and perform root tasks (ie sudo apt-get update)
I still have as much root access as I ever have before!
> To the best of my knowledge, ubuntu does not set up an additional root
user, just gives the main user root access via passwd, please correct me if
that is me being a jackass!
> Thanks for trying
> Pete



If "*sudo*" will work, but "*su*" will not, then something is corrupted.
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