Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (605 mails)

["Guido Schiffer" <guido_schiffer@xxxxxx>]

Hi Sven,
Hi Folks,

Sven Michels wrote: Friday, October 26, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-security] I forgot my root password


>> > Hi,
>> > I have a SuSE 7.1 box with 2.4.7 kernel.
>> > I forgot my root password (yes, i am an idiot).
>> > How can I make to reset it?
>> >
>> > I have tried to boot as "lilo: linux single" but anyway he asks
me
>> > for the root password.
>> lilo: linux init=/bin/sh
>> should give you the rootshell,
>> mount / -n -o remount,rw
>> to mount / writeable, than passwd and set a new
>> password, mount / -n -o remount,ro afther that
>> and you should be able after reboot to login with
>> your new password.
>>
>> > I have tried too boot with a CDrom but with same result.
>> If you boot with the cd, you boot only your system. You can
>> boot a rescue system and mount the root partition to edit
>> your /etc/shadow, but that is more complicated.

Sorry, but if you call your way more simple than entering the system
via rescue-system I dont't know what you call complicated. You only
have to kill the X-entry in /etc/passwd (only maybe in /etc/shadow).
Regard my answer.
Nevertheless how one enters. the root-password has to be redefined.

Greetings
Guido