[NTLUG:Discuss] recovering root password - Opensuse 10.3/11.0 *SOLVED*

[Richard]

Richard wrote:
> In the past I have recovered root access by booting up with an 
> installation or rescue disk, mounting the root partition and editing the 
> shadow file to remove the encrypted password.  I've done that on an 
> opensuse box but the system still won't let me login as root.
>
> Is there something else that is preventing a login?  I thought that PAM 
> might be enforcing a password restriction or something so I generated 
> and added a password hash for root.  The login still didn't work.
>   
Added the 'single ' option to the grub boot line and successfully 
changed the password.  I still don't understand why editing the 
/etc/shadow file didn't work.

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Richard