Hello there,
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM, SUBHASH UDIAVAR subhashudiavar@gmail.comwrote:
On opening the Linux OS I found after booting which must be taking less than
a minute or slightly more faced with a login page. I appreciate my friend that he has mentioned both my login ID and password within the Linux symbol for ease of use and on punching these details the 'login failed' pops up. As I am new I was wondering if you could help in solvingin starting my Linux OS. Something like disabling the login itself or in the least to reprogram the login dialogue. Please remember- *I am a novice as far as PCs go *and use it mostly to surf,mail and IM etc.
Please bear with me while we figure out the exact problem. Are you saying that you are unable to log into your machine that is running a Linux distribution?
You can reset your password by booting into single-user mode (which is something like the "Safe Mode" on Windows but not quite). But before we do that I need to know which distribution of Linux you are using (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, etc.) and whether you see this word "grub" when you start your computer.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-reset-forgotten-root-password/
You will find those links useful. Of course, we will be able to guide you better through resetting your password after you've given us a few more details.
Trust I have contacted the correct persons for the advice. Grateful if one
of you could help me out. Thanks and regards SBUdiavar
Sure thing.