Can't login in Debian

[gloomer]

Debian01 was my username, and 18563994badaboom was my pass.

Debian boots up great and then it goes.

Debian01 Login:

well I type in Debian01 and then it goes to

Password:

It's blank and I can't type anything.

I press enter and then it goes to a blank line, I wait a second, and then it says login incorrect.

I've spent over half an hour using different user name and password combo's

using root as username and everything.

I basically need a command before I boot up that'll reset everything and let me state the username and password again.

I don't know what to do.

I know these are the right login details it just won't let me in !!!

[gloomer]

On the grub boot loader blue menu, I have the

Debian GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux (single user mode)

I can also hit 'C' to get into the command line.

Once I get into the command line it says, " Minimal Bash like line editing.

I'm not sure what to do.

Thanks for the help guys.

[pavlo_7]

have you checked this method:
http://www.linuxforums.org/security/..._password.html
?

[deanlinkous]

Well you should of created a user account with a password and also set the password for the root account. You also created a name for the system and it sounds like that is what you used the Debian01 for. Make sure you aren't mixing the two. Make sure your caplock and/or numlock isn't on. That is one heck of a password but I am not sure it needs to be that long. In the past, only the first eight digits were actually used but that may have changed now.