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Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:03 pm
by gnu-stu
Hi All, I've installed LMDE from the live DVD onto my lenovo (IBM) ThinkPad R60 four times now and each time I attempt to log into my new installation I get an "Authentication Failure" message and fail to login. The live DVD seems to be working fine.
Anyone come across this problem before?
Cheers
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:21 pm
by caf4926
No problem here
Is this the Latest LMDE release?
32 or 64 bit?
Did you run the media check? (Even though it boots to the desktop)
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:40 pm
by gnu-stu
Hi caf4926,
It's the 64 bit version, 201012, I downloaded it two days ago (I think) when I saw it mentioned on Distrowatch.
I did do the md5sum check and it checked out OK ...
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:43 pm
by cecar
Authentication Failure means you are entering wrong password. Are you sure you are entering correct password?
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:50 pm
by gnu-stu
Hi cecar,
that was my first thought after the first install, but after three more installs in which I set the same password I'm pretty confident that I'm typing the correct password.
Having said that I have rebooted into recovery mode and when prompted to "type in password or press ctrl+D to continue" at the command line, my password is accepted! weird!!
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:07 pm
by cecar
That is weird... Could it be something that there is something wrong with your keyboard setting when X starts?
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:19 pm
by cecar
What you could do after logging in into recovery mode..
passwd <your user name>
And set the password there..
Example for my username
passwd cecar
This sets a password for user cecar,
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:49 pm
by gnu-stu
Just tried your suggestion cecar and got the following message;
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mint-debian~# passwd stuart
mint-debian~# passwd: user 'stuart' does not exist
I guess I could try using 'adduser' ... will 'adduser' put me in a default set of groups or do I need to define them manually?
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:57 pm
by gnu-stu
thanks for the help cecar, I just used adduser(on the command line), followed the onscreen prompts and now I can login ... woohoo!!
thanks again
gnu-stu
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:02 pm
by cecar
gnu-stu wrote:thanks for the help cecar, I just used adduser(on the command line), followed the onscreen prompts and now I can login ... woohoo!!
thanks again
gnu-stu
Glad to be able to help..
Just curious.. You must have another user named something else then?
Could you type in terminal
And post the output?
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:08 pm
by det4100
Since his password worked in recovery, I'm thinking that he may have a password with two of the same characters next to each other and is typing too fast. This sometimes negates the second letter if certain settings are in place in Keyboard Accessibilities. Bounce Key or Bouncy Key. I forgot what it was called.
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:27 pm
by cecar
det4100 wrote:Since his password worked in recovery, I'm thinking that he may have a password with two of the same characters next to each other and is typing too fast. This sometimes negates the second letter if certain settings are in place in Keyboard Accessibilities. Bounce Key or Bouncy Key. I forgot what it was called.
To me it looked like he was trying to log in to a user that did not exist because terminal told him that user stuart was not to be found.
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:18 pm
by gnu-stu
@cecar,
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stuart@mint-debian ~ $ ls -lsa /home/
total 12
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 09:50 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Dec 27 20:28 ..
4 drwxr-xr-x 24 stuart stuart 4096 Dec 29 12:08 stuart
just the one entry ...
I'm gonna have to re-install again. Initially I had my hard drive all partitioned nicely and thought that maybe my partitioning scheme was screwy or something. At the moment I have one one huge partition + swap, not nice ...
Re: Authentication Failure
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:35 am
by det4100
cecar wrote:
To me it looked like he was trying to log in to a user that did not exist because terminal told him that user stuart was not to be found.
I missed that part.
