Re: Lost root password

From: Oliver Schwabedissen (haustuer.5.olis_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 11/08/03 

Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 00:54:26 +0100

Mel Andres schrieb am Freitag, 7. November 2003 01:57:

> Reboot into single user, then reset root's password.

Unlike Red Hat Linux SuSE's runlevel 1 asks for the root password to log
in.

Oliver

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