Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
On 2008-08-05 08:16, John E. Perry wrote:
Since I go into root rather rarely, it may have been quite a few days since I last used root. One of my family visitors (grandson) is something of a jokester, and I suspect him :-). He and his father left last Sunday, and don't think I've had occasion to go into root since then. ... Try grepping for "password changed" in /var/log/messages to get some hints :-)
Arrgh! Thanks, Sylvester. I'd installed Russian language support for my daughter-in-law, who's Russian. There's something called scim that pops up every once in a while and takes over my user interface. When I just tried to do sudo so I could get into messages, the password failed yet again. I noticed the notation "en-ispell" on the scim taskbar, and looked for something more appropriate. At the end I found "en-keyboard", clicked that, and I have root back again. BTW, the only "password changed" entry was the grep command :-). Apparently the passwd command I had executed at init level 1 didn't go into /var/log/messages. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org