I recently installed debian 7.1 and I reinstalled it at least five
times. I've tried installing it with a root password created and
without and Debian still won't let me log in as root. It says
"authentication failed" after I type in the root password.
I've tried reinstalling it without creating a root password and it
still won't let me log in. I get the same message as before. I can
log in as another user, but not as root. I've checked the passwords
entered and every time the password is correct, but Debian says that
it's not. How can I fix these issues.
I've tried to use the password command to remove whatever password I
created/didn't create and I get an error message that the password
command cannot be found in BASH. Is there something wrong with the
Debian 7.1? I can't even install updates to the OS.