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Can't login to Debian login screen
I installed Knoppix to my hard drive along with Win XP. I installed LILO to the MBR and it seems to boot to either properly. When Linux completes the boot I get a Debian login screen asking for my user name and password. I enter "root" (without quotes) for the user name and then when I put the root password in I get a login failure message. When I try to login as "koppix" and use the user password the screen blinks for a moment and returns to the login window. What am I missingt?
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Re: Can't login to Debian login screen
Originally Posted by
turbines
I installed Knoppix to my hard drive along with Win XP. I installed LILO to the MBR and it seems to boot to either properly. When Linux completes the boot I get a Debian login screen asking for my user name and password. I enter "root" (without quotes) for the user name and then when I put the root password in I get a login failure message. When I try to login as "koppix" and use the user password the screen blinks for a moment and returns to the login window. What am I missingt?
In the menu option at the login screen choose KDE instead of default that is preselected for the session type. BTW you should not be logging in as root if you need root access while running graphically then open a console window (the monitor with a shell on it in the taskbar) and use the su command then enter the root password and you can now do whatever you needed to do as root.
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or even better actually the " MUST be there, so for runing vi on /etc/fstab i would do I will then be asked for rootpass.
the comand and ONLY that will run as root, if i shut it down, it crashes... privileges are lost. so slightly less risk of accidentaly do something bad as root.
OErjan
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Perhaps you're not using an English keyboard, and the proper driver hasn't been activated? Check under /etc/console and the XKbLayout entry in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.
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