On Saturday 24 July 2004 23.29, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 16:14, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:14 am, Lyle Giese wrote:
In RH, you could boot into single user mode and be auto connected as root without knowing the password.
And you have conclusively proven that the same method will not work in SuSE?
It's been a while, but I proved it in 8.1. I had a root password get corrupted, I have no idea how, but it did. When I tried to log in single user, it wanted the root password. I used a Knopix CD, mounted my root partition, cleared the root password in shadow, and was able to get it back.
Or you could 1. boot via the CD/floppys 2. mount the / (rw) (ie. mount /dev/whatever /mnt ) 3. chroot to the mounted / (chroot /mnt /bin/bash ) 4. issue passwd to change it (passwd) Its a "roundabout way" derived from installing Gentoo systems... -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >