Re: root password

"bob" <wrobseg@xxxxxxx> writes:

Check this out http://www.persianadmins.com/swf/opensuse-pass-recovery.htm

Bob
"PWB" <pw***@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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is there anyway I can change my root password or other password or view
them all please only 5here is one that I keep entering incorrectly as this
pc was dual booted for me and all except 1 password is not with me .


No you cannot view them. They are hashed and there is no known way of
reversing the hash except trying all possible passwords and see which one
fits. Since that is a number of the order of 10^40 passwords, that is a bit
difficult to do.

You can change it. Log on as root and run
passwd

If you want to change a users password, either log in as that user and run
passwd (it will ask for the old password) or as root do
password username
and change the user's password

If you have to change the root password without knowing it, there are two
ways-- remove the disk from the computer, install it on another computer,
mount the appropriate partition and use passwd -f filename
or
boot single user and hope it is not set up to demand a password for root
for single user bootup. If not then you can remount the / partion
read-write and use passwd to change root's password.



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