Is it possible to knock down root password in SuSe 9.1 Prof

vault13 · 09-30-2004, 07:09 AM

Hey there,

I need to change the root password on my SuSe 9.1 profesional. It's freshly instaled. The problem was that, during the instalation, I chose a different - non english - language. Then, after I was asked to enter root password, I did using english letters "wxq" etc. These letter don't exist in my language. I think this is the problem, and because of this I'm not allowed to login as root.

Is the a salution for this? Help greatly appreciated.

m00t00 · 09-30-2004, 07:48 AM

yes there is.

easy way: re-install
slightly less easy way: knoppix or the live cd of your choice, then
1) mount your SuSE partition on /mnt/suse, then (as root ) edit /mnt/suse/etc/shadow and delete the root password
or
2) mount your SuSE partition on /mnt/suse, then (as root) chroot /mnt/suse /bin/bash, then type passwd.

vault13 · 09-30-2004, 12:57 PM

thanks for your help