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Re: [opensuse] root password not working

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 17:42 +0200, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
On Friday 20 June 2008 17:31, bill biggs wrote:
I installed suse 11.0 and when I try to install any app's and when it
ask me for my root password and after that it say's error I need root
access

Just asking: You are aware that the default in 11.0 is to use the password of
the "main user" (the one you create during installation) as the root
password?


CU
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Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx> Penguin by conviction.
YaST2 Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Nürnberg, Germany


So, during the install of 11.0 you no longer set a root password? Just
an additional user and that password is root password? I have not yet
installed 11.0, just checking here.

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Michael S. Dunsavage

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