Asking for retropie login on boot? (after update)

superdude77

I turned my Pi on last night for the first time in a couple of months and had this login problem. Set the Pi to update then on reboot it started asking for login creds. I definitely hadn't changed them, checked the saved password in my ftp client to make sure.

In the end I ended up reading the 'Shadow' file from my Windows laptop and resetting the hash the the Pi user account back to 'raspberry' as per a comment in this post https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8771/i-think-ive-deleted-the-default-pi-user

Snoman_

OK listen I just updated my retropi and it says...
Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 retropie ttyl
retropie login:
password:
BUT listen it WILL NOT let me type in the password area, so how the hell do i get back in...I just wanna play some games. And i you cant access the config or type any commands in its just that. So what the hell do i do.

Snoman_

pls someone help, honestly now im just getting frusterate

mitu

@Snoman_ The password is not echoed to the screen, like on the Windows login screen. You just type it and press Enter to log in.

Snoman_

ok ill try it

DKarn

@Sano I am putting a comment here because this is the BEST way to remove the login password and I keep loosing it. BTW what I have found is that the options that I have been find that options that are suggested remove the text from the boot but not the password. now I can just look under my past comments

cms3717

I got it! i Googled the password for the image Im working with in this case Use: pi Pass' supreme2019 and it worked:)

BuZz

@cms3717 you're on the wrong forum then. That software has nothing to do with us, apart from they used our code as a base.

Marvos

I just turned on my retropie and had this issue. I typed the login and password suggested and worked.
I was wondering if that is going to happen every time I turn my retropie on, if so how can I skip that without the login/password?
Thank guys very helpfull!

mitu

@Marvos The answer is in the 1st page of this topic - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18591/asking-for-retropie-login-on-boot-after-update/13. Or, the Docs.

shura-3275

Hello,
I have the same problem, I cannot enter the login and password.
every time he tells me incorrect login ....
how do you get into sudo-config ??
"at command prompt, type sudo raspi-config
select option 3 in menu (Boot Options)
select option B1 (Desktopp/CLI)
select option B2 (Console Autologin)"
thanks

mitu

@shura-3275 said in Asking for retropie login on boot? (after update):

I have the same problem, I cannot enter the login and password.

What user/password are you typing ? Maybe you changed the default password ?

shura-3275

@mitu hello,
just pi and Raspberry
I am a beginner, and I have just created my retropie.
I did my installation, put the roms, bios and I wanted to do an update and it happened this at launch.
I am blocked at login
I could redo everything from the start but I would prefer to find the solution to restart from the login request

windg

@shura-3275

The default password is raspberry, not Raspberry.

shura-3275

@windg excuse me I made a typo in my post.
I wrote well in raspberry in retropie

mitu

@shura-3275 said in Asking for retropie login on boot? (after update):

I wrote well in raspberry in retropie

The default RetroPie image has user pi and password raspberry. If you used that image to install and didn't change the password yourself (recommended), then the credentials should work. If they don't, then we can't help you - you either changed your default password or not using the RetroPie image.

shura-3275

@mitu downloaded the retropie image on your website then install with win32 ... on my sd card.
retropie launched correctly then I went to setup retropie and asked for an update.
and at the reboot I had this problem.
that's all i touched ... i didn't try to change the password
I should have changed the password before doing an update ??

mitu

How are you entering the user password ? Can you describe it step by step ?

shura-3275

@mitu when he asked me for login, i plugged my keyboard into usb and type pi then enter
then he asks me for the password .. at that time when the small bar flashes after the word password, I can not write anything and I have to press twice to enter and be able to write raspberry.
but I have to do it quickly otherwise it will re-ask me for the login

mitu

@shura-3275 When you're prompted for the password, just write the password, even if the terminal doesn't echo back the actual password - while you type your password nothing should appear on the screen, that's how it works.
So, at login write pi, then press Enter, when asked for password just write raspberry and then press Enter.