Ver 10 NEW install

Ok I reinstall the debian system iso file and it still will not let me past the login screen I tried the blank password name and password but still it will not let me past the login screen with or with out the login.

now at a stand still.?

Ken

Remeber, usernames and passwords are case sensitive. (Almost everything in Linux is case sensitive.) Is it possible that a glitchy keyboard is messing with your username or password inputs? (If you got a double or dropped character when inputting them either at install or login later.) Is the caps lock or num lock key screwing with your inputs? (Linux tends to default to num lock off at start up.)

Thank's Todd
I have double and triple checked all of that. very aware of the upper/lower case thing in Linux. installed 3 different keyboards thinking of that first off. I still think Linux may be the path for me if I can just make all the paths come to gather for what i have in mind to end up with.
thanks
Ken

Good day to you Tom
Just curious what was your very first computer and year you got it, and did you build it from scratch.?
Ken

5280 wrote:

why cant they just have a check box do you need a password yes / no and leave it at that
1 frustrated old man
 

As an old man, you should remember mainframe computers occupying several large racks that were operated by many people from many terminals. Linux is derived from Unix, Unix was developed in 1969... This is why in Linux you have to use passwords (and also a complicated permission system). You can't escape it, you have to like it...

Cool

Good Day: Adam
"I don't Like it" I just want it to work as prescribed which it does not seem to do when I can not even get past the login screen when i entered the password and user name in the OS install. oh ya I am a old man as U say and still building computers and doing installs from scratch.
have a good day

For autologin you can do this, just after completing installation:


For auto login to Debian open a terminal:

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Uncomment the following and add your user name, be sure to scroll far enough down to get past the comments sections.:

autologin-user=yourusername
autologin-user-timeout=0