Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 22:01 -0400, John E. Perry wrote:
> Yesterday I was out of town.  This morning I tried to start up the wifi
> (11.0 doesn't restart the network after a suspend-to-disk), and the root
> password I've been using since I got this computer doesn't work now.
> All the other accounts that I've tried login fine.
>
> john@embelex:~> su
> Password:
> su: incorrect password
> john@embelex:~> su -
> Password:
> su: incorrect password
> john@embelex:~> su root
> Password:
> su: incorrect password
> john@embelex:~>
>
>
> Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling suse?

  Cracking the root account has been covered on the list a few times.
Try using sudo <command> and see if that does what you need it to.

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