Hello all. I installed SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional on my home system yesterday afternoon. Today, I was able to login to my root password, then a bit later, I can no longer access root. I did typo several attempts to get into root from an su during an ssh session, so I'm wondering if: Is there some sort of mechanism that disables root access (even from console) after a certain number of failed attempts? If not, then is it reasonable to assume that either my file system was corrupted (although I haven't seen any evidence of this when ssh'd into my normal user account), or hacked? That asked, my understanding is the only way that one can reset the root password is by booting into a rescue system and modifying /etc/passwd. To do that, is it as simple as removing the 'x' between the :'s for the root line in that file? Thanks in advance!