After not being able to login to Aurora-dx due to a n unrecognized password I tried resetting the password using the grub (rw init=/bin/bash) method. All steps completed successfully without any errors.
But when the system rebooted to the login screen for my user it still refused to accept my password.
As it was advised not to create a root user for immutable Linux is there any other way to reset my user password so that I can login. A live distro,…etc
Hi,
Can you describe the exact steps, which you did to change your password?
Did you try a very simple password, without any special characters or capital letters and only with characters which usually don’t change between different keyboad layouts? Just for the reset I would pick a password like “k” and nothing else.
If nothing works, you could try to set your password to blank (no password to enter, just pressing ENTER when prompted for a password):
echo "<YOURUSER>:$(mkpasswd -s </dev/null)" | chpasswd -e
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Thank you Schmuuu for your response. I had tried the steps called out on the Fedora website,
The only part that wouldn’t work was step 7 (auto label)
I tried your
suggestion command line suggestion to echo the password typed but the “chpasswd” command was not recognized in a bash shell in Fedora.
I tried your other suggestion, to choose a password without special characters and my choice of temporary password came back with a 3 line error stating that the password included a dictionary word and was too simple for Selinux rules. Fortunately that was just a warning and it did accept the temporary password I’d chosen. This resulted in a successful login after confirming the temporary( alphanumeric) password and performing a CTRL-X
It seems that there were nearly a dozen people with similar password recognition issues makes me wonder if there is any possibility of a bug issue with password database corruption from system power down during suspend.
Thank you so much for sharing your technical knowledge. You are awesome!!!
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