ultrastupid password question

[Ted Ozolins]

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
>  
>

I can not remember exactly where on the SxS site, but there is a section 
on how to login to machine (forgoten passwd) and set the new passwd. I 
had to use it once but can not remember all the details.

-- 
Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C