Help can't login!

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 15 September 2013 21:01:48 Pete Smout did opine:

> @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:
> > @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:
> > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Bahn, Nathan
> > > <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > >> 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.
> 
> > > 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/
> 
> 0 packages can be updated.
> 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?
>
For starters you are an argument short, you did not tell it what to chown.

If you want to chown the whole /home/pete tree, you will need to sudo just 
in case a root file snuck in:
sudo chown -R pete:pete /home/pete
or, if you are cd'd to /home/pete, you can use a dot as the last argument.

> Thanks
> 
> Pete


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