Lost your Root Password

MWahl | November 22, 2009 | 6:54 pm

If you have inheirted  an system or simply lost SU password in most cases you can reset the password. Remember phyiscal access is root or administrator access….

Open SuSE

If using CD/DVD boot media, You need to choose Rescue System

mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda2 /mnt

# cd /mnt
# chroot /mnt
# passwd (new password)

Reboot

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