As was pointed out in one of the private messages to me, you have to edit
inittab to allow that. And one of my points in the question, was you did
not have that opportunity prior to having to do password recovery.
It can be done in suse, but just not 'out of the box'.
Lyle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Satterwhite"
On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:14 am, Lyle Giese wrote:
In RH, you could boot into single user mode and be auto connected as root without knowing the password.
And you have conclusively proven that the same method will not work in SuSE?
It's been a while, but I proved it in 8.1. I had a root password get corrupted, I have no idea how, but it did. When I tried to log in single user, it wanted the root password. I used a Knopix CD, mounted my root partition, cleared the root password in shadow, and was able to get it back. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBAtSljeziQOokQnARApO9AJ9JVqJsS/489NBwVq8v0ZtXpPyvWACgif/R m/kVaqiSYygvD8UcUqbz9IQ= =rhlY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com Security-related bug reports go to security@suse.de, not here