Re: [PLUG] I can't login to my Ubuntu laptop anymore. It keeps looping at the login.

2015-10-16 Thread NEIL
Yes. You can use a Linux Live CD to do this or a USB flash drive. You'd just need to make sure that you switch your BIOS to boot off of it. In addition to doing what they suggested, you could try to figure out what is going wrong with the configuration and try to fix it, but it could be more

[PLUG] I can't login to my Ubuntu laptop anymore. It keeps looping at the login.

2015-10-16 Thread Genaro Hernandez
Hi. I would appreciate it if someone could help me with my issue. It's my only laptop and I really need it for my schoolwork. *The issue* is that something went wrong with my Ubuntu 14.04 because at the GUI login, I enter my password, it looks like it accepts it, then it says something went

Re: [PLUG] I can't login to my Ubuntu laptop anymore. It keeps looping at the login.

2015-10-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
you can boot into th live thingy mount your drive # assume you mount it at /mnt for this idea edit /mnt/etc/shadow to nullify your password (the : are delimiters) example before:

Re: [PLUG] I can't login to my Ubuntu laptop anymore. It keeps looping at the login.

2015-10-16 Thread Genaro Hernandez
Thank you Michael. On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > you can > boot into th live thingy > mount your drive # assume you mount it at /mnt for this idea > edit /mnt/etc/shadow to nullify your password (the : are delimiters) >example before: > >

Re: [PLUG] I can't login to my Ubuntu laptop anymore. It keeps looping at the login.

2015-10-16 Thread Genaro Hernandez
Thank you Neil. On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:06 PM, NEIL wrote: > Yes. You can use a Linux Live CD to do this or a USB flash drive. > You'd just need to make sure that you switch your BIOS to boot off of it. > > In addition to doing what they suggested, you could try to figure out