Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Don Raboud <dwraboud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 17 September 2007 20:46, RTF wrote:
>  I tried what I normally would have used as
> a root username and password unsuccessfully.  The same with my normal
> username and password.  I have not set them but don't know how now to do
> that?  Any clues?  It is installed but I have not yet assigned a
> password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I
> have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular
> username and password.  :(

When you boot openSUSE (using GRUB I assume) there is a place to enter boot 
options.  If you enter "init=/bin/bash" (without the quotes) that will boot 
and get you a shell with root permissions.

Here just issue the command "passwd" to set the root password to whatever you 
like.  

After that reboot normally and you should be able to log in as root.

-- 
Don
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