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How do I get past login in start up?

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Getting back to rpi after a long break, I find that I can't input the correct login name and password. Using  'pi' and 'raspberry' respectively as suggested by a book is not effective  Can someone please help?

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  • Sounds like you've changed the password of the pi user.

    As it's not possible to boot in single user mode and override any security, the fasted way would be to reinstall you SDCard with a fresh copy of Debian Wheezy.

     

    You could also try to mount the SD card partition on a linux box try to set the password back in /etc/shadow.

    The string would be : $6$OYutr90v$4BAZLmsHs4K2FxxkniLx6PNANWephlcyB88F4uL3VeNSJhqXzU4p3blgCV2uo5ThGo6kZjpeDggad8hARkvy01

     

    Be sure to change the password again afterwards.

     

    Hope this helps a bit.

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  • Sounds like you've changed the password of the pi user.

    As it's not possible to boot in single user mode and override any security, the fasted way would be to reinstall you SDCard with a fresh copy of Debian Wheezy.

     

    You could also try to mount the SD card partition on a linux box try to set the password back in /etc/shadow.

    The string would be : $6$OYutr90v$4BAZLmsHs4K2FxxkniLx6PNANWephlcyB88F4uL3VeNSJhqXzU4p3blgCV2uo5ThGo6kZjpeDggad8hARkvy01

     

    Be sure to change the password again afterwards.

     

    Hope this helps a bit.

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