ultrastupid password question

[Mike Reinehr]

IIRC, when you boot into single-user mode, you are asked for the root password 
-- or ^D to go multi-user. I'm thinking that the only way around the problem 
is to boot from a Knoppix disk, or other Linux partition, and then edit the 
shadow files. (Haven't actually tried it, though. :-)

mike

On Sunday 08 February 2004 12:59 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 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.
>
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