From: Josephine (josephine_karcor.de)
Date: Sat Jul 24 2004 - 12:10:28 CDT

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On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:56, Lyle Giese wrote:
> I have been using suse for a bit now, having used RH previously. One
> feature that I seem not to see or maybe it's just not there.
>
> In RH, there was a way to recover the root password. As I am an independant
> consultant, I can just imagine getting to a client's site and they don't
> remember/know the root password.
>
> Is there a way/method to recover/reset the root password in suse?
>
> Thanks,
> Lyle

this method is available for a linux distros:

at boot menu (if grub/lilo press esc) type:
linux init=/bin/bash
after starting the system.
# mount -o remount,rw /
# passwd root
# mount -o remount,ro /
reboot.

Josephine

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