I had automatic login on. I went to turn it off. Restarted my computer and now my password for logging in does not work. I don’t know how this can be, if I had just entered the password to disable auto-login. Now i am locked out of my system.
I know, it’s long and ugly. When done your root password will be novell.
On the other hand, if you already know your root password login as root
and set your regular user’s password that way.
Good luck.
On 08/04/2010 06:06 PM, edgar eche wrote:
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> I had automatic login on. I went to turn it off. Restarted my computer
> and now my password for logging in does not work. I don’t know how this
> can be, if I had just entered the password to disable auto-login. Now i
> am locked out of my system.
>
> Is there anyway to bypass this?
>
>
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On 2010-08-05 02:29, ab@novell.com wrote:
> On the Grub screen (boot screen) add the following at the end of the line:
>
> init=/bin/bash
>
> It will boot quickly and be very ugly and painful to use, but it works.
> Once there edit /etc/shadow with a value like the following:
>
> root:$2a$10$MxvLPYvaIbYklP.2aAJzG.wIChoiu5p3i3i8sDrqwit8ocDLGK.h.:14826:0:99999:7:::
>
> I know, it’s long and ugly. When done your root password will be novell.
Wouldn’t it be easier to put an empty password? On entry, you change it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
ok i took a stab at it and changed my user name to root and used my password that i have been using and it went through. from there i went to my control center to create a password for my username.
Maybe you do not see a clickable item for the ‘root’ user but I think the
login screen lets you put in another username if you type it in manually.
I never do this, though, so I cannot say for sure.
Regarding Carlos’s astute observation, a blank password would be better
but it never seems to work for me so I never do it. An even nicer way is
to get booted as mentioned and then use the passwd command directly to
change your (root’s) password. That may work as well:
passwd
Good luck.
On 08/04/2010 07:06 PM, edgar eche wrote:
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> wow that is a whole lot of characters
>
> ok so maybe the password i have is for the root
>
> how do i login as root?
>
>
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On 2010-08-05 03:06, edgar eche wrote:
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> wow that is a whole lot of characters
>
> ok so maybe the password i have is for the root
>
> how do i login as root?
you don’t. Read again the instructions. The init line.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
> Regarding Carlos’s astute observation, a blank password would be better
> but it never seems to work for me so I never do it. An even nicer way is
> to get booted as mentioned and then use the passwd command directly to
> change your (root’s) password. That may work as well:
>
> passwd
>
> Good luck.