Help can't login!

[Pete Smout]

@google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
sent from my HTC.
On Sep 15, 2013 11:03 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Bahn, Nathan <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>
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>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Infact to prove I'm not mad......
>> > http://db.tt/uxAHoqCZ
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>> I'm afraid that I'm a jackass.  From any tty CLI please enter root:
>> $ su XXX
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>> where XXX=your login ID.
>> Then please try tty7.  All this may do is merely confirm that I'm a
jackass.
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> Yeah, I'm a certifiable jackass.  From tty1:
> $ su
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> Then try tty7.
Interestingly Su asks for passwd, and gives authentication failure, su pete
asks for psswd, then let's me in switching to tty7 then trying to login
gives no output on tty1, but doesn't let me in

Thanks
Pete
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