Re: Not a request for help, but an explanation?

On 11/05/2024 06:06, Borax Man wrote:

On Thu, 9 May 2024 12:59:57 +0100
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

On 09/05/2024 11:40, Borax Man wrote:

On 2024-05-08, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Yesterday, I installed the latest kernel in my mint MATE 20.3 desktop
here. It advised me to reboot, so I selected the reboot option after
closing all programs, and away we went. It rebooted fine and I got a
login prompt, that looked oddly different. I think it had my full name
instead of nothing above the login prompt.
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And no matter what I typed in as password, it wouldn't accept it.
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Thinking I might have to repair something from a live installation disk,
I decided that at least a hard reboot might be worth trying, and with a
proper power off it rebooted as normal.
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Anyone have a clue as to what that might have been?
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I am the only user on the system. It's mine, all mine, and one else ever
uses it.
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 Oh one other thing, did you encrypt your home folders?
 

Nope. I am extremely lax on security of that nature. Nothing I do or think is in any way private, valuable or worth stealing.
I am so to speak an open book in the public domain :-)
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