Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (605 mails)

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at lilo prompt
linux single rw init=/bin/bash

then edit /etc/shadow and remove encrypted password, reboot, login as root
with no password, reset root password.

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Alberto Butrico (linux) wrote:

>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.
>
>I have tried too boot with a CDrom but with same result.
>
>
>Thank you and greetings
>Alberto Butrico
>Montevideo - Uruguay
>
>
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Chad Whitten
Network/Systems Administrator
neXband Communications
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