Very strange problem here after an update today.
When Debian goes to stdby it asks for my password
but it says, "incorrect".
When I restart ( really) the computer I can log in
again, also when I "switch user" and do a new login
the password is accepted.
Do I have a Linux virus or what can be wrong here?

Edmund

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On 2007-12-27, Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Very strange problem here after an update today.
> When Debian goes to stdby it asks for my password
> but it says, "incorrect".
> When I restart ( really) the computer I can log in
> again, also when I "switch user" and do a new login
> the password is accepted.
> Do I have a Linux virus or what can be wrong here?
>
> Edmund

Not sure why this is happening in your case but make sure that you are
using the right keyboad. I've been caught when an upgrade changed the
keyboard and some of the keys were producing different symbols from what
I thought  they were. I've now made passwords which are not affected by
such changes.

Anthony

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:37:44 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:

> On 2007-12-27, Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote: 
>
> Not sure why this is happening in your case but make sure that you are
> using the right keyboad. I've been caught when an upgrade changed the
> keyboard and some of the keys were producing different symbols from what
> I thought  they were. I've now made passwords which are not affected by
> such changes.
>
> Anthony

Good suggestion Anthony, but I don't think
( not sure ) that can be the problem here.
I simply use my name as password and when I
switch user and log in with the very same name
and password it is accepted.
If I cannot log in I cannot check what keyboard
is used, at least I don't know how.

Edmund




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>[vbcol=seagreen] 

Edmund, you still tend to not give enough information. You say "after an
update today", yet you don't tell us which release you're using. An
'update' from unstable or testing is different from an update to stable.
Not everyone reading this will remember what you have installed.

I wonder, is that a screensaver password that your system is asking for
rather than user password? Just a guess.

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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:23:45 -0800, Rodney wrote:
 
>
> Edmund, you still tend to not give enough information. You say "after an
> update today", yet you don't tell us which release you're using. An
> 'update' from unstable or testing is different from an update to stable.
> Not everyone reading this will remember what you have installed.

HI Rodney, I think you are right about that I tent to forget
since I am used to a group ( BeOS ) where everyone used
the latest BeOS version, unless they specified different.
In Debian with all the Linux versions this may be not
so obvious for everyone, I try to remember that.

For the record I do use the Debian etch, something
I cannot find anywhere on my computer btw.
>
> I wonder, is that a screensaver password that your system is asking for
> rather than user password? Just a guess.

Yes it is but I never specified a special password for that
and it always was the same as my user password.
I find this very very strange.

Happy new year to you all,

Edmund

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