Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-01-28 Thread Neil Stone
I plan to attend also. This will be my first meeting of you peoples!!! On 28 Jan 2014 17:27, "Terry Coles" wrote: > > The next Meeting is one week tonight at 8 pm on 4th February 2014. The > venue > is the usual place; the Broadway in Bournemouth. > > See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?i

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-01-28 Thread Natalie Hooper
I'm still working in London so I won't be able to attend :-( On 28 January 2014 17:26, Terry Coles wrote: > > The next Meeting is one week tonight at 8 pm on 4th February 2014. The > venue > is the usual place; the Broadway in Bournemouth. > > See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=me

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-01-28 Thread Terry Coles
The next Meeting is one week tonight at 8 pm on 4th February 2014. The venue is the usual place; the Broadway in Bournemouth. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway I expect to be there, but I will be in Stevenage that day, so may not be back in time (I may be

[Dorset] Slightly OT: Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing

2014-01-28 Thread Terry Coles
This story is horrendous: http://boingboing.net/2014/01/27/uk-national-museum-of-computin.html Follow the links to the source of this story (a BBC video) where the Bletchley Park Trust's 'manager' fires a 'volunteer' for showing people around the National Museum of Computing, against the 'rule

Re: [Dorset] Strange passwd change loop

2014-01-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Sam, > > Try going for a simple test password if your normal choices have > > control-characters or other unusual stuff that might be unacceptable > > to one of the commands and not the other. > > This method has found the problem.  My password had an '@' symbol at > the end of it which appear

Re: [Dorset] Strange passwd change loop

2014-01-28 Thread Sam Davis
Hi Ralph,  >> When starting up my Arch system and trying to login with my username, >> sam, I'm apparently entering the wrong password. I have to login to >> the root account and 'passwd sam' to be able to continue. > > So you set sam's password to `foo' and then you can log out of root and > log

Re: [Dorset] Strange passwd change loop

2014-01-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Sam, > When starting up my Arch system and trying to login with my username, > sam, I'm apparently entering the wrong password.  I have to login to > the root account and 'passwd sam' to be able to continue. So you set sam's password to `foo' and then you can log out of root and log in as sam/

[Dorset] Strange passwd change loop

2014-01-28 Thread Sam Davis
Hi All, When starting up my Arch system and trying to login with my username, sam, I'm apparently entering the wrong password.  I have to login to the root account and 'passwd sam' to be able to continue.  If I try to use sudo once logged in the password for sam that I just reset is rejected.