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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Administrator locked out - Ubuntu 11.10 Post 302592854 by Royalist on Wednesday 25th of January 2012 05:51:02 AM

01-25-2012

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Administrator locked out - Ubuntu 11.10

Yes I'm new to Ubuntu! I am Administrator because I installed Ubuntu.
On the 20th Jan I became tired of entering the login password and so decided to change to automatic login and changed the password to "none".
The result of this is that I no longer have the necessary privileges and the Keyring authentication box keeps popping up, but it will no longer accept what used to be my password. I have read all sorts of advice such as deleting Gnome2 files etc.
At present I am trying to find a backup to restore the Gnome2 files from that is previous to the 20th Jan and since the last re-installation.
Please can anyone suggest a simple way out of this mess?

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