Re: setting root's password if it was set during installation

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 10/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:41:31 +0200

Nathan Gilbert wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I had a fight to install SuSE 10.0 on an old server, during the process,
> setting the root's password was skipped. This has caused some problems
> when I tried to log in for the first time. Does anyone know of a way to
> set root's password even though it wasn't set during the installation
> process?

Log in as root and type passwd. Strange that you say it was skipped,
because it does ask for the root pasword and gives you a warning if you
don't.

If loging as root in does not work, go to init 1. 

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