Bugzilla – Bug 601780
root password entered during installation is invalid
Last modified: 2010-05-05 12:22:15 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) During an install in Swedish and Swedish keyboard I enter a root password with an ? in it. After installation when I enter this password i.e. in YaST I get invalid password. The ? is interpretted by the installer as _ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install 2. choose Swedish language and Swedish keyboard 3. choose root password not same as user password 4. enter root password with a ? 5. After installation start YaST and at request enter root password as entered at installation. Actual Results: Invalid password. Expected Results: YaST should have let me in as root. In console I can change password if I enter _ instead of ? and change _ to ? After that password works in YaST.
Please attach YaST logs. It's actually helpful to attach them to (almost) every bugreport for YaST. See http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST
Well, the problem is obviously not with root password, but that you are using English keyboard layout during installation, which is bug 601587 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 601587 ***