Re: Hardware

[Andrei Popescu <andreimp@rdslink.ro>]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:41:14 +0000
Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello William - please reply to the list, not individuals. You may get 
> more replies that way!
> 
> >Thank you for your response. I installed Debian without the Ethernet card
> >been detected. Yes, I have the 2 dvd's. 
> >
> >My problem now is after installing Debian for the first time, I was asked to
> >write a user name, a user account name, login name and password. When I boot
> >the system, I am ask to login. I typed what I think is the login name and
> >password I registered with, but I get an "invalid" response. I am unable to
> >login. It is very frustrated because I don't know what to do next. I login
> >those user names I always use, and I only have one(1) password I used every
> >time.
> >
> >Can you tell me how to bypass login name and password to enter Debian.
> >
> >Thank you very much.

Maybe you switched "user name" with "real name". Can you login as root? If so then just do 'ls /home' in a console and you will find out how your user is called. If you want to create a new one just do 'adduser my_username'. Or if you just want to change the user's password you can do 'passwd my_user'.

HTH
Andrei
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