Carl Spitzer {L Juno} composed on 2020-09-22 17:33 (UTC-0700):
On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 22:16 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote: ...
Like the old system, you can blank out the password field to remove it.
So now I must clear both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? If you use any of the methods David (/bin/bash...) or I suggested (chroot...; <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Recover_root_password>), or that Per and Carlos confirmed, in this very thread, the passwd command does all the work. There should be no need to edit either of those two files directly. -- Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion, is based on faith, not on science.
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