Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (297 mails)

["Lyle Giese" <lyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That ASSUMES you have one for that version.  Again, I am talking about a
client's server(maybe used just as a SAMBA server for a workgroup) and I may
not have done the intial install/setup.

Doesn't a rescue disk need the drivers for that machine and therefore be
made on that machine?  This is not always possible because of a lack of
total control.  In RH, you could boot into single user mode and be auto
connected as root without knowing the password.

Lyle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lars Ellenberg" <l.g.e@xxxxxx>
To: <suse-security@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-security] password recovery


> / 2004-07-24 10:56:07 -0500
> \ Lyle Giese:
> > I have been using suse for a bit now, having used RH previously.  One
> > feature that I seem not to see or maybe it's just not there.
> >
> > In RH, there was a way to recover the root password. As I am an
independant
> > consultant, I can just imagine getting to a client's site and they don't
> > remember/know the root password.
> >
> > Is there a way/method to recover/reset the root password in suse?
>
> you have a rescue disk at hand, and boot from that one...
> obvious solution, no?
>
> lge
>
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