[NTLUG:Discuss] recovering root password - Opensuse 10.3/11.0 *SOLVED*
Richard
ntlug at rain4us.net
Fri Nov 13 14:47:43 CST 2009
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.
--
Richard
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