11.03
Last time I installed Ubuntu 9.10 I said to myself, let’s use a good’ol secure password for my user. Two days later I was already regretting my decision.. I’m not saying a password shouldn’t be secure, but a 10 digit password 5 of which are numbers just starts to get annoying when having to type it every time you want to sudo this or sudo that.
No problem thusfar, you just wander to System > Administration > Users and Groups
Note: You might want to skip changing your users’ password when during installation you’ve selected to also use the users’ password to decrypt your home folder. I’m not saying it will, but it could cause problems when the configuration of your login password and the decrypt password don’t match.
You click the user who’s password you wish to change, click properties and enter your current (long and typo-prone) password
Next you enter a finger-friendly password, and confirm before you hit ‘Change password’…
Instead of getting a message that reads ‘Your password has been changed’ you get …
Well I know it’s simple, that’s kind of where I’m getting at!
After some swearing I realised I might as well use the command line to get things done…
Open a terminal and enter
sudo passwd yourusername
You will be asked to enter the current password, enter a new password and confirm.
Thataa! Easy as 123! Damn now I have to go and change my password again…
Ummm…. I changed my user password and it caused problems; it wont decrypt the home directory now. It just gives me a bunch of error messages and loads into the default desktop without the window manager or anything. Any thoughts on how to fix it?
So does that stop it from demanding a keyring password when I log in under my new password? Currently, I changed it, it was accepted, but now, when I log in under the user ID, not the admin one, I get asked to put in the keyring password to allow the network to connect. It won’t take my new password, my old password, or the admin password. i can’t
“deny” the keyring or it won’t connect at all, but if I close the window, it lets me put in the WEP key. Then the keyring thing comes up AGAIN. Again, it won’t take any of the passwords – new, old, or admin – and denying again shuts down network access which is “denied,” – if I close the window, it connects.
Now, to me, that’s just weird, not to mention a major hemorrhoid…I hope that your cure is the Ubuntu preparation H!
If not, can you advise?
Hi Mike, I have read about similar problems and it appears to be a bug in Ubuntu 9.10.
User Chad Quickstad posted a solution :
After using the System->Administration->Users and Groups tool to change my password, I encountered the conditions exactly as the original bug filer did under “2 – What actually happened” in his bug report.
I pressed Ctrl-Alt-F1 on my keyboard to bring up one of the non-GUI login prompts. From there, I logged in to my account using the old password.
At the prompt I used the passwd command. It asked for the current password, so I gave it the old password. Then I entered in the new password and again to confirm.
After that I rebooted and was able to log in with my new password.
Hi nerdse,
I don’t see how changing the password would affect prompts for the keyring password.
The situation you describe is anything but ‘normal’ and I understand how that can lead to hemorrhoid analogies.
I’ll look into the specific problem when I have some time to spare.
I would suggest you google the symptoms and hope you find a hemorrhoidal suppository in the form of a solution.
In the mean time you can purchase one of these to cope with your ring of fire :
well the e z way to change ur passwd is using ur terminal
if work with me why u don’t try
here goes
on ur terminal type sudo passwd
is going to say new unix type ur passwd *********** enter
now just confirm ur new unix passwd ********** enter
and done….. to confirm ur passwd if work or not
just open synapic is going to ask you for ur passwd enter ur new passwd if
synapic open ur new passwd work if dont go back and try ageing
that how i change my passwd ;) hope u help
I don’t approve all comments posted on the blog because : they are spam, the message has words in it but they don’t make sense, the words make sense but the message doesnt, …
I approved the above comment because I thought it was pretty funny, in a retarded sense.
This person ( who probably means well ) comments to a post where I explain how to change the ubuntu password using the terminal by telling me it’s easier to change the password using the terminal. Wow, glad he pointed that out to me/us, because all this time I was changing the password using the terminal… silly me.