Use the boot/install disk. Login to the rescue system. Chroot to the real root, change the root password from the command line (passwd), do it again for the real user. HTH Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz ----- Original Message ----

From: Bob Rea To: OpenSUSE Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:59:36 PM Subject: [opensuse] New Install Perplexities #1

I think this has been coveered before but I may have fouled it up

I just installed 11.0 on my new laptop. I thought when the user page came up it was for root. Later it was clearly not so i went into yast and change the password. Neither the one i set thinking it was root nor the one I set from my ordinary user now work. I can get into online update in yast but if I try it from the taskbar it asks for the root password.

How can I fix this?

Oh I am logged on using the original password. What will happen when I leave an come back as my normal user with the new password?

Have I fouled things up too badly?

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2008-11-30 at 14:59 -0500, Bob Rea wrote:

yast but if I try it from the taskbar it asks for the root password.

How can I fix this?

http://en.opensuse.org/Lost_root_password that's one more method. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkky/x0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WX1ACdE1sA4p963qJ8h6h1Wy18LAO5 NlQAoJIJNj9WQDefERzFL+Haa8ero8pN =wspQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org