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Masstumor

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Registered: 2015-05-19

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] Passwords don't work

My root password and normal passwords do not work. I don't what happen and cant seem to fix it.  I enter my password and it boots back to the login screen did it several times before I ctrl alt f2, from there I entered my password again told me it was incorrect I tried to log in as root it told me it was incorrect.

I then booted from the live usb I created entered,

 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
arch-chroot /mnt
passwrd
enter new  unix password: testing
exit
umount /mnt
reboot
 

Then I confirmed the password rebooted the system and had the same issue my root passowrd didn't work. I was able to get back into my masstumor account by booting from the live usb entered

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

nano /etc/sddm.conf

and added the lines

[Autologin]
User=masstumor
Session=plasma.desktop
exit
umount /mnt
reboot

Even in the konsole it tells me the password is incorrect. Is there another way I can repair this without reinstalling.

Edit: Fixed it problem was my keymap, somehow it got changed. I switched it back and was able to fix the accounts back.

Last edited by Masstumor (2015-05-19 13:18:13)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: [SOLVED] Passwords don't work

Mark this as [SOLVED] please -- (edit the title of your first post)