hallo, thanks for responding! have tried it again, just by typing the password blindly, it does work now! I am a newbee on working with Debian as an OS, I do have the book " debian 9" by Koen Wybo in order to learn as much as I can, but missed the, indeed, obvious! really did not have a clue!!! Thanks again!!
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:18:45 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=BCrkan_Myczko?= < [ mailto:gur...@phys.ethz.ch | gur...@phys.ethz.ch ] > wrote: > Hi Arnoud > > Just to clear the obvious, you did type your password blindly, followed > by enter/return? > > Because the password input gives no feedback on keyboard input. > > Best, > >