I tried a zypper dup today but it broke my board (unable to boot since kernel file name in /boot did not match anymore and no initrd was present.)
So, I wanted to boot the latest raw image but trying to log in with root/linux but I get this error:
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linux login: root
Password:
Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive
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I looked at the /etc/shadow file which seems strange to me:
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Event
# Greg Bailey