On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote:
OK... I made a really dumb move. I cleaned up and tossed the
installation notes. On that was the Administrators password.
Is there anyway to recover it?
Is there anyway to reset it?
OK, this is rough because I'm not much of a linux guy (Solaris is my
day job) and I haven't done SuSE at allm but this should be close.
easy way: if you put your user account in the sudoers file, do this:
sudo passwd root
it will ask for your password, then it should ask for a new root
password (twice).
Hard way:
boot from a LiveCD, mount the hard drive, edit /etc/shadow as
follows: on the line that begins "root:" delete all that garbage (the
encrypted password) between the first and second colons. Reboot the
system and root will have no password.
If I reload Linux (openSUSE), will that take care of it?
well yeah, but so will buying a new computer. (:
-Jason
kg4wsv
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