I understand why people hate this machine (currently the worst-rated machine - the ‘lanterne rouge’ as the people of the tour de France will call it).
My 2cents:
- Foothold: from all the variants I know to download something only one has worked, so don’t stop trying. In the real life, that would be it since you’re now system on the machine, but no, you have to keep going…
- User: I’m pretty sure I got creds I’m not supposed to get (for both the user and admin). For the box creators; that was a bit lazy ;).
- Root: anything I tried to do on the command line to switch users failed, so use the portal.