Log in issue

[shadowbullet]

I just finished booting kali soo they said enter your username soo I put root and I put the password that I used from before but it shows me incorrect password and I did it like 5 times and it won’t work please help ASAP

Username:root and Root
I tried both

 

[Peer]

Wrong keymap?
Have you tried to log in via the tty? By pressing crtl+alt+F2?

Why do you use kali?
Have you read the article pinned in this forum about kali Linux?

 

[arochester]

On install, Kali will prompt you to create a non-root user that will have administrative privileges (due to its addition to the sudo group). This is the same process as other Linux distros you may be familiar with.

Source - https://www.kali.org/news/kali-default-non-root-user/

Enter your username, not Root. Use sudo to get Root access.

Perhaps this should be moved to the Kali Linux Section of this Forum.
https://www.linux.org/forums/kali-linux.162/

 

[Drizzit89]

Try logging in with "kali" for username. Or follow the instructions in the link below. The install probably failed to create the user account "root" because there is already one in /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd. When following the walk through it maybe worth while checking /etc/shadow for all the accounts available. The newest ones should be at the bottom. If you don't see a user account, you could probably still change root's password or create an account with sudo privileges as normal. Just replace root with the user account name.

How to reset Kali Linux root password - LinuxConfig.org

How to reset kali linux root password

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