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On Sunday 22 April 2007, StephenW wrote:
I can no longer access su. I have only ever used one of two passwords. Neither of them will work today.
Suggestions for correction?
winstephen
boot the system using a knoppix or similar live cd mount the / partition of the main hard drive (the one you screwed uo the password on) best seems to be to mount it on /mnt/maindisk or something siomilar AFAIK it has to be in a directory UNDER /mnt of the running system once mounted "chroot /mnt/main" passwd enter new password for root user reneter new password for root user new password saved . unmount the mounted hard drive reboot new password in use . I have had to do this on several differing systems suse simply mephis slackware .. never failed yet .. have fun Pete . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org