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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Not a request for help, but an explanation?
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 08:59:49 +0100
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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.
>>>>
>>>> And no matter what I typed in as password, it wouldn't accept it.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have a clue as to what that might have been?
>>>>
>>>> I am the only user on the system. It's mine, all mine, and one else ever
>>>> uses it.
>>>>
>>>>   
> 
> 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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