my password is not working

[nurgenius]

Ok, I got that when all the booting is done and you've reached the part where you need to put in the default username and password you type I put in my username (Pi) but when it came to the password it didn't type anything not a letter would be typed.

I could use a lot of help with this.

Thanks

[mahjongg]

password is not echoed for security reasons, continue as if it is.

umpteenth duplicate post btw

[fruitoftheloom]

Ok, I got that when all the booting is done and you've reached the part where you need to put in the default username and password you type I put in my username (Pi) but when it came to the password it didn't type anything not a letter would be typed.

I could use a lot of help with this.

Thanks

When you type the password the characters are not shown, that is usual.

Just type the password and then hit the Enter Key

[beta-tester]

... I put in my username (Pi) but when it came to the password it didn't type anything not a letter would be typed...

for security reason, the characters of the login password are not displayed.
and to be not able to see, how long your password is, for that even no '****' are displayed. so it will look like nothing happens while typing in your login password.
so you have to type in completely blindly.
if you still have problems with login password, in case you use a non-QWERTY keyboard, where the first left top alphabetic row of the keyboard is not 'Q', 'W', 'E', 'R', 'T', 'Y' - for example a german keyboard has there 'Q', 'W', 'E', 'R', 'T', 'Z' you have to watch out to adapt the different keyboard layout as long your layout is not setup in raspi-config.
the password can be instead of 'raspberry' on a german keyboard, where the layoutsettings not setted up well 'raspberrz'

EDIT: i should create shorter replies, i always be the first to start writing, but i am last, because of too much text.

[B.Goode]

I could use a lot of help with this.

Thanks

Seriously - I wonder why it seems easier to post a question here and wait for an answer rather than reading the instructions already made available by the Raspberry Pi Foundation?

http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/quick-start-guide/

Once your Raspberry Pi has completed the boot process, a login prompt will appear. The default login for Raspbian is username pi with the password raspberry. Note you will not see any writing appear when you type the password. This is a security feature in Linux.

And because the last person I pointed this out to still didn't 'get it' - Note you will not see any writing appear when you type the password. This is a security feature in Linux

[nurgenius]

thank you very much guys it finally worked