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Roey
Asked: 2017-05-20 06:24:44 +0800 CST

chown username:username .Xauthority

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I'm stuck in a login loop Ubuntu 17.04. When I go to tty1 and type chown username:roey .Xauthority taken from Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop

It says that my user doesn't exist.

What is the problem? How can I log back in to Ubuntu-Gnome?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The command is

    sudo chown roey:roey .Xauthority

    1st roey is the user, 2nd is the group roey

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  2. If you don't know what username/group you shoud use, I suggest using something like this:

    sudo chown $USER:`id -gn` .Xauthority
    • $USER will be expanded into your current username.
    • id -gn will returns the main group of your current user.
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