Help can't login!

[Liam Proven]

On 16 September 2013 13:06, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Iam currently logged in graphically as my new user (full permissions)
> and into tty1 as Pete (original user account) so access to the machine is no
> longer a problem, but now it is like the missing answer in a crossword, I
> need to know the answer!


OK - and have you successfully taken ownership of all the files in
your home directory?

The way I'd do it would be:

$ whoami
fred

$ su pete

$ whoami

pete

$ cd ~
$ pwd

/home/pete

$ chown -R pete:pete *

$ ls -la

Then check you own everything, and try logging in again from the
graphical login screen.

FWIW I've had similar problems myself.

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