[SOLVED] Cannot log into computer-FEDORA 15

[TNgal79]

I'm running Fedora 15. While in the terminal I changed the passwd. Now I can't log back into my computer.

This computer had Windows, but we wiped Windows & installed Fedora 15.

Is there a way for me to change the password again, so that I can log back into the computer, or will I have to re-install Fedora?

I've tried CTL ALT F3 and that doesn't help

Any help will be greatly appreciated...

[marko]

Yeah, log on as root and change that user's password to the correct one. I'm assuming here that when you say "I can't log back into my computer" you mean a proper user account and not the root account.

Just boot up the machine, when it gets to the gdm or kdm login prompt, press this three key combo to get to a virtual console (a text login prompt, there are many so I'm just picking console 2 at random)

Ctrl + Alt + F2

then log in as root and run:

passwd <username here>

for example if the user was "joe" do:

passwd joe

and fix the password

Of course you better have the root password

[TNgal79]

Thanks for your help Marko... I got it!