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07-21-2006, 04:43 PM
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Registered: Jul 2006
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I forgot my Superuser password on Suse 9.1
I forgot my superuser (SU) password on my Suse 9.1. Is there a way to reset it?
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07-21-2006, 05:53 PM
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boot into single-user mode, and change the password
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07-24-2006, 09:13 AM
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I did that already but that did not seem to work when I tried to log in to the SU account. Maybe I did something wrong.
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07-24-2006, 12:20 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Gießen, Germany
Distribution: Xubuntu 12.04, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Server 12.04
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If you have another Linux box (no matter what flavor) you can simply take root's line from /etc/shadow (containing the encrypted root password of the other box) and place it into the SUSE 9.1's /etc/shadow. Remove the former root line in SUSE's /etc/shadow and reboot into multiuser mode.
Both machines will have the same root password now.
However, make sure you have a backup of /etc/shadow before you do this ;-)
Regards
ric.
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