On Thu 01 Aug 2019 at 06:28:17 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > Debian-arm netinstall on a pi3b;
… about which I know nothing. (A physicist once showed me an original pi in the pub, I think.) > No root pw set, I am housebroken to using sudo now. > > netinstall didn't install x anything although I thought I was selecting > xfce4, so my first action on the reboot was to > "sudo apt install xfce4". reboot, works, have x and 4 workspaces. > > Then "sudo apt install build-essential and buildbot, cups". reboot, > worked once, login normal. Then I plugged in a 120GB ssd which had a > bunch of src stuff on it I'll need later and powered up again. Can't > login, passwd no good. Dbl check, caps lock off, try again several > times, passwd no good. > > Come to the house and ssh -Y picnc. passwd good, I have 2 sessions > running right now from konsoles on this machine. Back to the garage, > passwd fails. > > Suggested course of action? I do have access to it via ssh. And sudo -i > works. My first action would be to revert the change: remove the SSD. I'm assuming that typing the username ± Caps behaves normally. Cheers, David.
