Password question.

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 24 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
> Is it possible to undo what happened when I entered the xhost + and su
> entries? 

As far as I can tell, these two commands did nothing.


> Otherwise I am going to have to format.

That's the wrong approach.

> It takes me a long  
> time to reinstall, reset configurations, get the proper packages and
> dependencies back in, and I have some serious problems that require my
> computer right now.  I will also be out of touch with my family for
> several days.  It is OK, friend, I will fix it somehow.

Re-installing is almost never needed.

Remember, I said that 'steven' can only have ONE password....   I don't know 
what you have for a passwd now but I assume it is the 37 character one.   But 
you still should be able to change 'steven' passwd to anything else.