Cannot Login without using "root"

Hello,

This is the first time I’m running openSUSE. I cannot login without using the root user name. Not sure what else to do.

Got it. Changed the standard user password.

For completeness, can you tell us what you were doing?

What you describe sounds a bit like Bug 869798 which was a problem with 13.2 Milestone 0.

Please allways tell which version of openSUSE you use. Nobody at the other side of the world can be expected to guess such things.