Re: [SLE] Root password - is it THAT simple to alter it?

Basil Chupin wrote:

Thanks for that. I'll try and create a rescue floppy to test this out, but it seems to me that the resuce disk will try and boot you into the system which expects the password - maybe, I'm only guessing. Tired to create the 6 boot floppies tonight but 9.3 wouldn't create them although miraculously I managed to create the first one. Something not right here...

A resue disk should be able to boot without regard to any passwords for users of the system. You can download any of several rescue CD images from the internet or even use the 1st SuSE install CD or the DVD, to boot into a rescue system. The SuSE disks will also allow you to boot an existing Linux install.