I cannot log in Ubuntu 15.10
Liu Gengdai
liugengdai at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 12:58:04 UTC 2016
Thank you so much for your suggestion.
But it did work.
I am still unable to log in.
:(
2016-01-29 15:42 GMT+09:00 Scott Blair <scott.blair at gmail.com>:
> On 01/29/2016 01:38 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>
>> Scott Blair wrote:
>>
>>> Ctrl ALT F2 again. then try this:
>>> cd
>>> sudo chown R username:username .* *
>>> use the . before the * so it will pick up hidden files.
>>>
>> Better use
>>
>> sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME
>>
>> 1. You missed the "-" before the "R".
>> 2. The ".*" would include ".." which is "/home". If there is more that
>> one user on that machine, it would lock out all other users.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>> Thanks for pointing that out. I never thought about other users on the
> system.
>
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>
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