Could be a weird keyboard mapping rather than the password getting scrambled. If you have a graphical login check for something like a localization setting. For example if you see a UK flag instead of a US flag. Or also Dvorak.
If it's the password the usual trick from alternative boot like a USB stick is to switch to root "sudo -i" then chroot to the system you need to update the password on an run passwd. Can also avoid the boot USB by changing the boot line in grub to replace init with bash, but that is trickier than I want to explain here. On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, 3:12 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: > > [Snip] > > I'm assuming I can boot from the install USB stick, but if that works, > what do I look for to fix being able to log in? > > Also, during my other adventures, I noticed that instead of having my > user name in the terminal prompt I had a bash, something or other. > Whereas, as root, I did have root in the prompt. Does that point to > something? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
