Can't Login After Ip Address Change

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Ok, so I have an opensuse 10.3 webserver running in a virtual machine. The network guys at work did a few changes the other day and put the VMWare host it's running on in a different subnet, meaning all virtual machines running on it (including this server) had to have their address changed. I okayed for them to do this thinking it wouldn't be a problem to log into my server via the vmware console, change the ip address and be on my merry way (as is possible in windows...).

The machine is set to allow users to authenticate via ldap as well as locally. However, I can no longer log in as anyone (including root). It times out after 60 seconds. Initially, it looks as though it's going to let me in. I get a "Last login: the date...", but then it sits there thinking about it for a minute, until it gives me a "Login timed out after 60 seconds"

Putting the host back into its original subnet is not an option. Yes, I could copy this machine over to another host in the correct subnet, but it would be make me angry to have to do that (more so than I am now).

Booting in recovery mode doesn't change anything and disabling the network card in the vm settings doesn't help. So my question is:

Is there any way to specify when logging in that the user is a local one, thus bypassing an attempt to authenticate via ldap?

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Booting in recovery mode doesn't change anything and disabling the network card in the vm settings doesn't help. So my question is:

Is there any way to specify when logging in that the user is a local one, thus bypassing an attempt to authenticate via ldap?
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You could try to boot into single user mode by specifying ' init 1 ' as boot option.
When booted it should ask you for the local root credentials.
When logged in you can then run ' yast lan ' to set the correct ip settings and reboot.

Another option could be to ask the vmware admins to create a temporary virtual network on a separate nic (if there is a spare port left) and hook that up to the 'old' subnet so you can change the vm's config and re-hook it back up to the new subnet.

Good luck!
Wj

P.s. welcome to the forum btw!