[geoffro]

You may feel that have to use is an "unnecessary nuisance" but this is part of what makes Linux so secure and free from viruses and malware.
To get it back have a read here and here

Geoff

Originally Posted by rlaconte

I recently installed openSuse after using Mandriva for a while. In Mandriva I was able to su to root and then use

passwd -d root

to disable the root password. In my case the password is an unnecessary nuisance.

I tried this on openSUSE this morning, and now I get the message "SU returned with an error" if I try to use Yast or anything else that requires root permission.

Is there any way, short of reinstalling openSUSE, that I can fix this?

Thanks