I have always used a Debian boot disk (I'm sure many others
work as well), boot it up to the disk, mount the partition
where /etc/shadow is located, edit the file, save the file,
reboot and you're done.


On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:52:58AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
 Have a computer that the user who installed Suse (I believe it is 7.2)
 has forgotten the root password. I can torch the partitions but I
 thought that it would be easy enough - in RedHat - all I need to do is
 start up as linux 1 or linux single and then it doesn't ask for a
 password - but on this system, it still asks for root password.
 
 Is there another way to get to root access and change the password on
 this system? I am certain that this isn't a grub or lilo password since
 it boots up.
 
 Craig
 
 
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