desktop access from safe mode? (user access mess up)

[cueballkrill]

Hi,

I'm created what I think to be a massive balls up and I was hoping you can help me out.

Over the past few days I have been making a few changes to the settings of ubunto following various guides my first problem was yesterday attempting to stop the keyring password request screen popping up each time I turned the machine on.

The first guide suggested that I add this to my gdm login file:

@include common-pamkeyring

Since then I have found an easier way of solving the problem, however I did not remove this command from my gdm.

Anyway, I tried to get into my root user today by changing the password and the login in options (where I can select "other") and now I cannot log into either my main account or root account due to the "authentication system - general failure" error.

I have tried sniffing around in safe mode but as there is no desktop I don't have a clue how to solve this problem.

Can anyone guide me on how to sort this out via safe mode? I'd hate to have to reinstall everything

Kind regards,

Cue

[cueballkrill]

thread title change.

[cueballkrill]

Fixed it


Format - reinstall

[wojox]

If you ever lock yourself out again look here: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

[cueballkrill]

Sorry if my first post was unclear, I did know the passwords but ubunto refused to deal with them.

Thanks for the link though.