teguh wrote:
Hi, I have problem with my Mandrake 10.0. I changed something in Login Manager (Users tab), if I'm not mistaken, I uncheked Enable passwordless....blah....blah...blah.....(it's in upper left of Users tab). And I changed the logo (the K logo) but forgot to edit the new logo into suitable measure.........and now I can't even log in to my Mandrake :'( because as if the new logo covered the dialogue window to login. Anybody can help??? Please tell me step by step to fix it since I have no experience with Linux. Do I need to re-install my Mandrake?
> First, you should not have to re-install. It takes a drastic problem before a re-install is required. You should be able to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and get a Command Line Interface (CLI) login screen. Here you should be able to log in with your username and password.
Do you have passwords set for normal users? If you were logging in
without passwords, that is probably why you don't see the login screen,
there are no valid users that can log into the GUI. If this is the case, then
you have two options - set passwords for the users, or re-enable
passwordless logins. Personally, I think setting passwords is the better fix,
but that is up to you...
Setting passwords: Log in as root. passwd <username 1> passwd <username 2> ... logout Alt-F7 to return to the GUI. You may have to hit Ctrl-Atl-Backspace to refresh the user list.
or
Log in as <username 1> - hitting enter when asked for a password "should" work.
passwd
logout
Login as <username 2>
passwd
logout
...
Alt-F7 to return to the GUI.
If you want to enable passwordless logins, I think you can log in as root, and run drakx to reset this option. But I will have to check on this when I am back at the Linux boxes...
Mikkel
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