Password problem

[Frank McCormick]

Just installed Fedora 19 ( I know questions are supposed to go to that 
list, but this is more of a
general thing).

I was having a lot of problems with the GDM login manager so I disabled 
it and installed
lightdm.

Everything was working fine UNTIL I tried to change my password to 
something I could
remember - the steup forces you to pick one which can't be easily broken.

Now the login manager tells me both the old and new passwords are wrong. 
So basically I can't get into
the system. I tried the recovery kernel but it simply takes me to the 
login manager, unlike the recovery options
on my Fedora 17 and 18 systems.

Can someone offer a suggestion ( I'm writing this in my Debian system)

Thanks

[SternData]

On 05/20/2013 08:02 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> Just installed Fedora 19 ( I know questions are supposed to go to that
> list, but this is more of a
> general thing).
>
> I was having a lot of problems with the GDM login manager so I disabled
> it and installed
> lightdm.
>
> Everything was working fine UNTIL I tried to change my password to
> something I could
> remember - the steup forces you to pick one which can't be easily broken.
>
> Now the login manager tells me both the old and new passwords are wrong.
> So basically I can't get into
> the system. I tried the recovery kernel but it simply takes me to the
> login manager, unlike the recovery options
> on my Fedora 17 and 18 systems.
>
> Can someone offer a suggestion ( I'm writing this in my Debian system)
>
> Thanks

Boot into single user mode

As root, change your regular account's password

passwd accountname

Booting into single user mode:
http://www.fedora.itopstube.com/2011/07/entering-single-user-mode-at-grub.ht...

-- Steve

[SOLVED] Re: Password problem

[Frank McCormick]

On 05/20/2013 09:14 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 05/20/2013 08:02 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > Just installed Fedora 19 ( I know questions are supposed to go to that
> > list, but this is more of a
> > general thing).
> >
> > I was having a lot of problems with the GDM login manager so I disabled
> > it and installed
> > lightdm.
> >
> > Everything was working fine UNTIL I tried to change my password to
> > something I could
> > remember - the steup forces you to pick one which can't be easily broken.
> >
> > Now the login manager tells me both the old and new passwords are wrong.
> > So basically I can't get into
> > the system. I tried the recovery kernel but it simply takes me to the
> > login manager, unlike the recovery options
> > on my Fedora 17 and 18 systems.
> >
> > Can someone offer a suggestion ( I'm writing this in my Debian system)
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Boot into single user mode
>
> As root, change your regular account's password
>
> passwd accountname
>
> Booting into single user mode:
> http://www.fedora.itopstube.com/2011/07/entering-single-user-mode-at-grub.ht...
>
> -- Steve

Yup that did it. Wonder why the alleged recovery mode kernel in 19 
isn't ? I will ask on
the test list.

Thanks for the help.

[Edik Landaveri]

CTRL+F2
Login as root
passwd user 'your_new_pass'
type it again 'your_new_pass'

Once it says password successfully changed type in exit then CTRL+F1
to go back to the GUI and login as usual

The DM (display manager) has nothing to do with your password as user

Regards

[Joe Zeff]

On 05/20/2013 08:19 PM, Edik Landaveri wrote:
> CTRL+F2
> Login as root
> passwd user 'your_new_pass'
> type it again 'your_new_pass'

Wrong.  You use ^Alt-FN, not just ^FN.