If you have a root account enabled you might be in luck:
Go into a TTY while you're at the login prompt by pressingInput root username, and root password to login into the TTY.
enter this command to verify that your user account has a password set:if it has an "L" next to your username its locked, if it has an "S" then its all ok.
in case of "L" enter this to unlock:If the above is not the case, then enter this command to verify if your user account got blocked by system due to too many failed password attempts:
If it has multiple rows with your username and the "Valid" column has "V" then your account is locked due to too many failed login attempts...
Unlock it via:When you're done press CTRL+D to safely log out / detach root from the TTY2 and go back to GUI Login screen via CTRL+ALT+F7 or F6 (cant test, but if I recall correctly Debian has the GUI login manager on F7 by default) and retry login.
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Go into a TTY while you're at the login prompt by pressing
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CTRL+ALT+F2 or F3enter this command to verify that your user account has a password set:
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passwd -S yourUsernamein case of "L" enter this to unlock:
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usermod -U yourUsernameCode:
faillock --user yourUsernameIf it has multiple rows with your username and the "Valid" column has "V" then your account is locked due to too many failed login attempts...
Unlock it via:
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faillock --user yourUsername --resetIf my solution helped, please don't forget to push the "Thumbs up" button, near at the left of my profile pic, and mark the topic as solved.
Statistics: Posted by silensys — 2024-07-30 18:58