Help can't login!

[Pete Smout]

On Sep 16, 2013 1:12 PM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16 September 2013 13:06, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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!
>
>
> OK - and have you successfully taken ownership of all the files in
> your home directory?
>
> The way I'd do it would be:
>
> $ whoami
> fred
>
> $ su pete
>
> $ whoami
>
> pete
>
> $ cd ~
> $ pwd
>
> /home/pete
>
> $ chown -R pete:pete *
>
> $ ls -la
>
> Then check you own everything, and try logging in again from the
> graphical login screen.
>
> FWIW I've had similar problems myself.
>
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Hi,
Thanks for the ideas, I've run the commands above, yes I can confirm that I
own all files in my home dir!
Unfortunately I cannot login to my original account, so perhaps I've been
barking up the wrong tree all along!
Thanks again
Pete s
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