Screen Lock rejects password

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Peter Cockriell wrote:
[...]
> I had to leave my desk for a 
> moment so I locked my screen ... and now it's rejecting my password.  
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?  I know I can reset the password 
> through grub, but I'd prefer to understand why this has happened and how 
> I can prevent the problem.

Ok if your XSession was locked, did you try unlocking it with your 
normal login password. Do you have multiple accounts on this computer, 
if so are you using the right password for the right user? If you are 
confident that you are doing everything right, then can try the following.

You can switch to the first virtual terminal by pressing 
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F1 then login using the same username and password as 
your current xsession. If you can then you are login password is working 
and there is something wrong with screen lock. But if you can't login, 
then you have changed your password while playing with samba or other 
settings. Then the solution would be to try the passwords that you think 
you set for samba.

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  - Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

Homepage: http://sarangan.thuraisingham.net

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