On Mon May 3 2004 18:30, Dave Bourassa wrote:
> Okay I confess.  I seem to have forgotten the root pw for my wife's SuSE
> 9.0 box.  I have the user id and pw, but I can't for the life of me
> remember the root pw.  What's the easiest way to recover from this
> calamity?  All I wanted to do was reset the clock for daylight saving
> time and it wants root access to do it.  Of course I should have it for
> other stuff anyway, so any help will be appreciated.  Thanx a bunch.

John the Ripper:
http://www.openwall.com/john/

Venerable password cracker for UNIX and variants.  As long as your wife says 
it's OK.  ;-)

Curtis

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