Greetings all. I’m new to Linux (had some basic Unix experience in 1995 era). Neice (teenager) gave me HP2133 mini notebook running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Everything checks good (h’ware and s’ware), even wireless networking. Problem is she apparently created Admin/root password but says cannot remember. I cannot even set correct date time… yast is asking for root privelege:
command: /sbin/yast2 time
Is there anything I can do to re-establish administrator privelege?
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Google: suse root password recovery
Long story short, yes there is a way and it’s covered quite a few times in
these forums and other websites.
Good luck.
On 02/28/2011 11:06 AM, daveydoo wrote:
>
> Greetings all. I’m new to Linux (had some basic Unix experience in 1995
> era). Neice (teenager) gave me HP2133 mini notebook running SUSE Linux
> Enterprise Desktop 10. Everything checks good (h’ware and s’ware), even
> wireless networking. Problem is she apparently created Admin/root
> password but says cannot remember. I cannot even set correct date
> time… yast is asking for root privelege:
> command: /sbin/yast2 time
> Is there anything I can do to re-establish administrator privelege?
>
>
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Boot your system and when yor reach grub type init=/bin/bash and boot
wheen you see the root shell type passwd and change the root password
VampirD
Microsoft Windows is like air conditioning
Stops working when you open a window.
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Another way is to boot into runlevel 1. You should become root without inserting the password.
Best regards,
Greg
Thank you all for your time and effort responding to my query. I will use your suggestions to resolve this issue. It is a learning process in work. Mahalo nui loa (thanks very much).
Booting to runlevel 1 (at least in openSUSE) results in a prompt for the root password.
Thanks for the correction and sorry for misinforming. CentOS 5.3 and 5.5 doesn’t ask for the password when You boot to runlevel 1, openSUSE indeed does ask for it.
Best regards,
Greg