Root password setting

Hi, I was woundering is there any way to get the suse pro 9.2 autoinstall/autoyast procedure to setup the root account, such as password or do i still need to add that script hack i read about a few month ago? Is there a different work around? Right now autoyast installs the machine just fine, but doesn´t setup a root account and thus the install is not very functional. Please let me know Thanks S.