Jack Woehr wrote:
Kittendorf, Craig X. wrote:
Hi,
I just started back at a shop with SuSE 7.2 installed in an LPAR on a
z10 and no experienced sysadmin. The root password was changed and no
one knows what it is. We do not have VM, another Linux LPAR, or the
installation materials. Is there a way to resolve this?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/forgot-password-suse-linux-10-434891/
"And there's also the (easiest) option of booting with "init=/bin/bash"
which lets you become root ..."
This is what I would do, and why I reckon Linux security to be so
feeble[1]. One does need to know the commands to mount needed filesystems.
[1]Give me your disk or physical access to your computer, and not even
your boot-time password's enough.
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