Re: passwd in x11 and login appearance
Re: passwd in x11 and login appearance
- Subject: Re: passwd in x11 and login appearance
- From: Eric Dahlman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:52:57 -0600
On Dec 1, 2004, at 2:49 PM, Joerg Mertins wrote:
This seems quite strange: I use 10.2.8 and XDarwin 1.1.1.1 and wanted
to change my accounts password via command line in x11 bash window,
using the command "sudo passwd". That did not succeed but I remembered
system preferences in aquas main menu and everything worked fine.
Using sudo to run passwd would run it as root and not the user so
unless you included the flags to set the password for you as the
specific user you actually created a password for root. I think that
may be the case as one of the side effects of enabling the root account
a change in the login screen IIRC.
You can verify this by trying to log in as root to see if it works.
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you how to re-disable the root login, but
a bit of googling would most likely turn it up.
-Eric
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