ultrastupid password question

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Boot in single user mode? With lilo you type single if I remember but I 
might be wrong.


dep wrote:
> i don't believe i did this, but i did.
> 
> in installing a linux machine for my sister and her family over 
> christmas, i created a root password and guess what: there is no record 
> of it. now i absolutely have to get root access to the thing or, more 
> accurately, have to tell someone over the phone how to get root access. 
> this is a suse-8.2 box.
> 
> so. anybody know a quick, easy, sure-fire way of getting root access to 
> the thing?
> 
> i can't believe i did this.