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 16, 2013 1:01 PM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15 September 2013 21:06, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Tried that asks for my sudo passwd then back to prompt no other output!
>
>
> If it works, you have changed from one user to another. You get the
> prompt back but you're now logged in as the other person. If it
> /didn't/ work, you get an error, but remember the Unix philosophy: "no
> news is good news". No error means it probably worked.
>
> You can check who you're logged in as with the command:
>
> whoami
>
Hi, Iam currently logged in graphically as my new user (full permissions)
and into tty1 as Pete (original user account) so access to the machine is
no longer a problem, but now it is like the missing answer in a crossword,
I need to know the answer!

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Thanks again to all for your help

Pete s
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