Gabriel Frazee wrote:
I was just brought on as sysadmin at a firm and, lucky me, no one remembers any of the passwords... I went in to the SuSE gateway off a floppy and edited out the root password which got me in fine, I reset the password fine, yet the box still will not recognize the root password... I tried this twice, thinking I may have mis-typed, but still, no root access... any ideas?
From previous emails on the subject:
you can boot a rescue system with the SuSE boot disk/CDs whatever.. Mount your root partition on /mnt or whatever, then edit /mnt/etc/shadow by hand. root:kBcFyC8Ul4/tA:20456:0:12341:::: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's your encrypted password. Delete it to root::20456:0:12341:::: and log in by pressing <CR> when prompted for the password. or perhaps If you are using Lilo, at "lilo" type "linux single". When you get a prompt type "passwd" hth, JLK -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/