that has never worked for me, always drops me to a root password prompt. On Tuesday 28 May 2002 02:57 pm, Marshall Heartley wrote:
You can also try this. Boot the system and when you see the boot screen that has your choices on it, Press the Esc key and tab to where the word linux is. Then type out to the side of it this "init 1" without the quotes of course. This will put you into a administrative mode and should allow you to reset roots password with the passwd utility. Like so passwd foobar where foobar is the password that you want to assign to the root account.
Marshall Heartley A+,Network+
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On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 13:54, William Dulyea wrote:
Over the weekend I was helping my brother install SuSE Linux 8.0 and advised him to change the root password to something of his own choosing. Well, ...that was it, the password he says he entered does not fit and the old one I set does not fit either. Now I'm stuck, as I can not remember how to start the system in an anonymous shell so that I can reset everything. Does anyone on this list remember to how to get out of this problem?
-William
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