Hey all,
I just installed SuSE 10.1 on another of my machines, however somehow, highly stupidly I typed the incorrect root password twice when making it and now I cant for the life of me remember what it was, I read the how to on how to recover root passwords and went the method of using knoppix boot cd and deleting the password part of the /etc/shadow file, I also deleted the same part in the /etc/shadow.YaST2save file. This hasn't allowed me to enter root, it gives me some error about the password security not being good enough then says invalid password. I guess Im just being lazy but I dont want to reinstall SuSE, it takes like an hour and I want to know how to do this if i need to in the future!

Maybe you could add your normal user to the sudoers, so you can change to the root acount with the simple [HTML]sudo su[/HTML] and then change the password. I think you have to add your normal user to the /etc/sudoers file ( with konppix) to be able to do that.

though i have no experience with suse, the correct way to reset lost root password is to boot in single-user mode then change the password for root since single-user mode doesn't asks you for a login.

how about boot into single-user mode, and then change password?

edit: damn it

oops! sorry man.

Mabye SuSE did it a bit different. I have used your method for FC without any problem. That's interesting.

hmmm, well thanks for all this input, I initially tried the whole single user mode but upon booting SuSE gives out some error and cant boot single user with init=/bin/bash; I think maybe it's a security modification SuSE put in their version of the kernel perhaps? Im gonna try that modifying the sudo file now, see if that helps...