can't access admin account

kemosabe · 04-24-2015, 09:57 PM

I just created a Guest user account. When I rebooted, it went right into the Guest Account, without allowing me to choose and log in to the admin account. I tried Login Window and New Login in Administration panel. I tried Logout, but nothing happened when trying.

like100ninjas · 04-25-2015, 12:14 AM

what's your distribution?

kemosabe · 04-25-2015, 05:27 AM

Linux Mint 17.1

fatmac · 04-25-2015, 07:17 AM

Try going to a virtual terminal (ctrl+alt+F2) & log in there as the root user. Be careful if you are not familiar with Linux you can do a lot of damage as the root user. (Ctrl+alt+F7 should return you to the GUI.)

kemosabe · 04-25-2015, 07:24 AM

is my user name entered as root user?

beachboy2 · 04-25-2015, 08:07 AM

kemosabe,

This covers several eventualities:

https://www.liberiangeek.net/2013/03...ring-ringtail/

yancek · 04-25-2015, 08:08 AM

When installing Mint as with most/all other Ubuntu derivatives, you must create at least one user during the install. That is the primary user and that user will have admin/root privileges so that when you login using a terminal, you would preface any command with: sudo

The behavior you describe could be explained if you set the guest account to autologin when you created it although I'm sure there are other explanations.

kemosabe · 04-25-2015, 08:43 AM

Giving up and starting over, a little smarter. Thanks for your help.