Password issue

I've installed the new LiveCD version (Graphical) on a fresh hard-drive from a thumb-drive. All seemed to go well, but when I attempt to boot into it now, Debian won't accept the password it prompted me to create during the installation process. I tried reinstalling and creating a different password with the same result.

This has probably been asked and answered, but I looked and didn't find it. Did catch the warning not to create a password under 7.1. Installing on Debian Wheezy (with Preempt-RT kernel). But I understood that to apply only to Alternate Install Methods.

OK, I'm good (for now).

andypugh wrote:

Let me guess, you were typing in the password at the "login" prompt when at that point it actually wanted the user-name?

You might well make that mistake again in the future, I know I do.

Exactly!

But it only took three installations to resolve it, at least temporarily.

I've already made the mistake again.

I did the same thing. Was also going to reinstall, when I figured it out. Doesn't help that my German keyboard mounts as English, until I am logged in, so I need to use a z as a y in the user name.

On my old 10.04 controller, I specified a root password, but gave the user no password, so it boots straight into the user profile. Can this be done in Wheezy?

Mark

Thanks Andy. That works perfectly.
Mark