Rescue Login Incorrect

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Hi,
When I use my Linux 12 CD to boot into Rescue System, I am immediately prompted for a userid and password.
I enter my root credentials, but am told that the login in incorrect.
So far as I know, my personal userid and password are identical to root, so that shouldn’t be an issue.
If I enter su and then type passwd, I am prompted to enter my current roon password. i then do so and am prompted for a new one. At that point, I interrupt the process.
If I enter passwd outside of su, I am prompted to enter the password for “joe”, which is the root username and, I guess, my personal username as well.
I then type in my root password and am prompted for a new one.
Attempts to update the password are frustrated by a message that indicates that I am using a dictionary word, even when I enter random letters.
After a number of attempts, I am told that a threshold has been exceeded and I am thrown back to the prompt.

What is rescue login looking for when it prompts for userid and password under Rescue System?
Thanks in advance,
s660117

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What’s a “Linux 12 CD”?

I enter my root credentials, but am told that the login in incorrect.

Can you login as user?

So far as I know, my personal userid and password are identical to root, so that shouldn’t be an issue.

Your personal userid is not identical to root.
Your password might be, it is by default. But if you ever changed your user password, root’s password will not be changed, so they will differ now.

If I enter su and then type passwd, I am prompted to enter my current roon password. i then do so and am prompted for a new one. At that point, I interrupt the process.

So your root password is accepted here?

If I enter passwd outside of su, I am prompted to enter the password for “joe”, which is the root username and, I guess, my personal username as well.

No. joe is joe, and root is root. The root username is “root”, not “joe”.
“joe” probably is your personal username though.

I then type in my root password and am prompted for a new one.

In this case, you enter your user password.

What is rescue login looking for when it prompts for userid and password under Rescue System?

Depends on what CD you are actually booting, I suppose.
IIRC, the openSUSE installation CDs/DVDs only take “root” as username with an empty password.
They don’t actually read anything from the installed system, and you’d have to mount your partition(s) (and maybe change to the installed system via chroot) to do anything with your installed system.

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On Mon 16 Mar 2015 03:16:01 PM CDT, s660117 wrote:

Hi,
When I use my Linux 12 CD to boot into Rescue System, I am immediately
prompted for a userid and password.
I enter my root credentials, but am told that the login in incorrect.
So far as I know, my personal userid and password are identical to root,
so that shouldn’t be an issue.
If I enter su and then type passwd, I am prompted to enter my current
roon password. i then do so and am prompted for a new one. At that
point, I interrupt the process.
If I enter passwd outside of su, I am prompted to enter the password for
“joe”, which is the root username and, I guess, my personal username as
well.
I then type in my root password and am prompted for a new one.
Attempts to update the password are frustrated by a message that
indicates that I am using a dictionary word, even when I enter random
letters.
After a number of attempts, I am told that a threshold has been exceeded
and I am thrown back to the prompt.

What is rescue login looking for when it prompts for userid and password
under Rescue System?
Thanks in advance,
s660117

Hi
User is root and no password, just press enter when asked for a
password.

What openSUSE version are you using, or be more specific as to what
Linux 12 is…

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Thanks, Malcolm. Entering root bypasses password and gets me into a command prompt.
s660117