Suse - single user

[Mike]

I usually leave it blank (i.e ::)


On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:07:05AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
 OK - So do I just put an asterisk '*' between the 1st and 2nd colons?
 
 Craig
 
 On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:13, Mike wrote:
 > I have always used a Debian boot disk (I'm sure many others
 > work as well), boot it up to the disk, mount the partition
 > where /etc/shadow is located, edit the file, save the file,
 > reboot and you're done.
 > 
 > 
 > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:52:58AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
 >  Have a computer that the user who installed Suse (I believe it is 7.2)
 >  has forgotten the root password. I can torch the partitions but I
 >  thought that it would be easy enough - in RedHat - all I need to do is
 >  start up as linux 1 or linux single and then it doesn't ask for a
 >  password - but on this system, it still asks for root password.
 >  
 >  Is there another way to get to root access and change the password on
 >  this system? I am certain that this isn't a grub or lilo password since
 >  it boots up.
 >  
 >  Craig
 >  
 >  
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