Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Darrell Skildum <darrell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This worked.  I used disk one of the install to boot as a rescue, and then 
followed your instructions.  Thanks. 


On Thursday 18 November 2004 15:12, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 2:05 pm, Martin Mewes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Darrell Skildum <darrell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :
> > > I have two systems with SuSE 9.1 installed.  On one of them, the
> > > password for Root seems to have been changed.  I have been careful
> > > not to change this. What is the easiest way to re-instate a
> > > password for Root.
>
> It is very simple.
> Boot the SuSE rescue CD (or any other Linux bootable CD).
> Mount the root directory of your system.
> use the chroot command to temporarily set that as root.
> Then change the password using the passwd command.
> Here is an example:
> # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt # Mount the root directory from your SuSE 9.1 system
> # chroot /mnt # make that the root
> # passwd root
>  Changing password for root.
> New password:
> Re-enter new password:
> Password changed.
>
> Exit chroot
> umount /mnt.
> Then reboot, and test the passwd.
>
>
>
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