On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:24:01PM +0200, jdd wrote:
As you may know, when installing 10.1 (at least beta 8), if you stop the install after the first cd, you get stuck by a wrong root login.
having this problem, and knowing the lost root passwd is very frequent on the net, I setup a sdb page (in french, sorry).
I nearly invented a new way to circomvent a somewhat better protection on the new (10.x) systems - it's no more sufficient --at least in this case-- to blank the passwd field.
http://fr.opensuse.org/J'ai_perdu_le_mot_de_passe_root
given the hardness of the subject I would be glad if some of you could check the solution on a testbed system (NOT on production system, please :-);
No need to test this. In principle this works but there is something missing in your description. Before changing the password you have to remount the filesystem that holds /etc/ read-writable by: # remount rw / Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."