Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3566 mails)

[peter nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 22 April 2007, StephenW wrote:
> I can no longer access su.
> I have only ever used one of two passwords.  Neither of them will work
> today.
>
> Suggestions for correction?
>
> winstephen


boot the system using a knoppix or similar live cd 

mount the / partition of the main hard drive (the one you screwed uo the 
password on)  best seems to be to mount it on /mnt/maindisk    or something 
siomilar AFAIK it has to be in a directory UNDER /mnt of the running system


once mounted  "chroot /mnt/main"
passwd
enter new password for root user
reneter new password for root user 
new password saved   .

unmount the mounted hard drive   reboot   new password in use .

I have had to do this on several differing systems   suse simply mephis 
slackware    ..

never failed yet ..


have fun 

Pete .

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