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login error
login error
I try to log in and it says that the password is incorrect. I'm sure the password is correct, so it may be a keyboard configuration thing because my password contains special characters and numbers. Anyway, can you help me change the user password to be able to enter? I use Debian 11 with xfce
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Re: login error
Come on, man. Google it first.
https://blog.eldernode.com/reset-forgot ... -password/
Then change the user password
... or whatever your user name is.
https://blog.eldernode.com/reset-forgot ... -password/
Then change the user password
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# passwd nikodavid
[HowTo] Install and configure Debian bookworm
Debian 12 | KDE Plasma | ThinkPad T440s | 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4600U CPU @ 2.10GHz | 12 GiB RAM | Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4400 | 1 TB SSD
Debian 12 | KDE Plasma | ThinkPad T440s | 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4600U CPU @ 2.10GHz | 12 GiB RAM | Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4400 | 1 TB SSD
Re: login error
Could be a login loop, which may, but may also not be resolvable by password change. I've experienced that. There were a few resolutions I've used in the past: reinstall the display manager which may be lightdm in the case of xfce; or replace the display manager with another e.g. sddm for lightdm; or change configs to avoid the display manager and boot to text prompt to start the GUI with startx or xinit with or without an .xinitrc file.
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Re: login error
What about the username ?
Is it a new installation or did it work before ?
Type the password in the username field so that you can see it in cleartext.
Boot in recovery mode or switch to a text console and log in as root. Then change the user password with
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passwd "username"
A login loop would not "say that the password is incorrect". It would try and fail to open the session and go back to the login screen.